CVE-2016-6077 Command injection in Cognos Disclosure Management
Attackers can execute arbitrary commands with lower privileges by tricking users into opening malicious documents in IBM Cognos Disclosure Management.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-6077?
CVE-2016-6077 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in IBM Corporation Cognos Disclosure Management, published on 15 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
IBM Cognos Disclosure Management 10.2 could allow a malicious attacker to execute commands as a lower privileged user that opens a malicious document. IBM Reference #: 1991584.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6077?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Cognos Disclosure Management.
How do I fix CVE-2016-6077?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6077 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2016-6077 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6077 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in IBM Corporation Cognos Disclosure Management
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rwwx-q49w-cj3x.