VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0254

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Published 2017-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.5

Description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 and 10.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources and cause a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 110563.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110563

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22004036

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.1.1
ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2
ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2.1
ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2.1.1
ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2.2

References

CWEs

CWE-611

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.