CVE-2016-8960
N/A
Published: March 27, 2017 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:55 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCognos Business Intelligence
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993718VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96963Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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