CVE-2016-8960

Severity

65%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

106%

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2 could allow a user with lower privilege Capabilities to adopt the Capabilities of a higher-privilege user by intercepting the higher-privilege user's cookie value from its HTTP request and then reusing it in subsequent requests. IBM Reference #: 1993718.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2 could allow a user with lower privilege Capabilities to adopt the Capabilities of a higher-privilege user by intercepting the higher-privilege user's cookie value from its HTTP request and then reusing it in subsequent requests. IBM Reference #: 1993718.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-03-27 22:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-03-29 18:30:00

Affected Software

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2

10.2

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1

10.2.1

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1.1

10.2.1.1

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2

10.2.2

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