High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2017· Updated May 13, 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.
Affected products
1- IBM Corporation/Cognos Business Intelligencev5Range: 10.2
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- www.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96963nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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