CVE-2016-0254 XML external entity in Cognos Business Intelligence

What is CVE-2016-0254?

CVE-2016-0254 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, published on 7 Jun 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 and 10.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources and cause a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 110563.

Weakness: CWE-611

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0254?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence.

How do I fix CVE-2016-0254?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-0254 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-0254 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0254 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

• CVE-2012-4858 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2016-8960 Privilege escalation in Cognos Business Intelligence High 8.8
• CVE-2016-3036 Memory corruption in Cognos TM1 High 7.5
• CVE-2017-1764 Information disclosure in Cognos Business Intelligence High 7.0
• CVE-2017-1486 Cross-site scripting in Cognos Business Intelligence Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rrh8-365p-pw96.