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CVE-2016-8960
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-27T22:59:00.227 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:55:14.610

Summary

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

ibm — cognos_business_intelligence

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References

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