CVE-2016-8960 Privilege escalation in Cognos Business Intelligence
A low-privilege user can escalate privileges by intercepting and reusing a higher-privilege user's session cookie in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-8960?
CVE-2016-8960 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Corporation Cognos Business Intelligence, published on 27 Mar 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8960?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence.
How do I fix CVE-2016-8960?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-8960 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2016-8960 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8960 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in IBM Corporation Cognos Business Intelligence
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vxjm-8m57-p725.