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CVE-2016-0217

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.4)—

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos Analytics are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

IBM — Cognos Analytics

CWEs

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