{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8960 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2016-8960 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-8960 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8960 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: IBM Corporation Cognos Business Intelligence. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-8960/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-8960/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-8960","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-8960/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-8960","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-vxjm-8m57-p725"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IBM Cognos BI","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A low-privilege user can escalate privileges by intercepting and reusing a higher-privilege user's session cookie in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ibm","cpe":[{"product":"cognos_business_intelligence","vendor":"ibm"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-264","name":null}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Cognos Business Intelligence","id":"CVE-2016-8960","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2016"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Open redirect in BigFix Inventory","id":"CVE-2016-8961"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Hardcoded credentials in DashDB Local","id":"CVE-2016-8954"},"products":["Cognos Business Intelligence"],"published":"2017-03-27","related":[{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Deserialization in n/a","id":"CVE-2012-4858","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-03-02"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Memory corruption in Cognos TM1","id":"CVE-2016-3036","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-04-17"},{"cvss_score":7,"headline":"Information disclosure in Cognos Business Intelligence","id":"CVE-2017-1764","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-04-23"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"XML external entity in Cognos Business Intelligence","id":"CVE-2016-0254","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-06-07"},{"cvss_score":6.1,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Cognos Business Intelligence","id":"CVE-2017-1486","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-04-23"},{"cvss_score":5.7,"headline":"Information disclosure in Cognos TM1","id":"CVE-2016-3037","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-04-17"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["IBM Corporation"]},"summary":"A low-privilege user can escalate privileges by intercepting and reusing a higher-privilege user's session cookie in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-8960/"}