VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8960

high
Published 2017-03-27 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
8.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993718

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

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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