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High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-8960

CVE-2016-8960

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.

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Affected products

6
  • IBM/Cognos Business Intelligence5 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: <10.2
  • IBM Corporation/Cognos Business Intelligencev5
    Range: 10.2

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