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CVE-2016-0254

CVE information

Published

6 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

CVSSv3.1 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.8/10
Exploit Score
8/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
Single
Impact Score
6.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
None

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.5/10
Exploit Score
2.8/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
Impact Score
3.6/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
None
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2.1.1:*:*:*:*:
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:
  Yes
- -