CVE-2016-8960

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.

• CWE-264

• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993718Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96963Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993718Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96963Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Published

Mar 27, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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