CVE-2016-0218 — Cross-site Scripting in Corporation Cognos Business Intelligence

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 63.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
IBM Corporation Cognos Business IntelligenceIBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Timeline
PublishedFeb 1
Latest updateMay 17

Description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos Analytics are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages2 packages

Patches

Patch: www-01.ibm.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-vq37-vvmq-jwxp: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos Analytics are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-0218: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos Analytics are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input↗2017-02-01
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CVE-2016-0218 — Cross-site Scripting | cvebase