CVE-2016-8960

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductIbm Cognos Business Intelligence
PublishedMar 27, 2017
First seenMar 27, 2017

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ibm cognos_business_intelligence10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, 10.2.2—

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