CVE-2016-0254

Published Jun 7, 2017

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
psirt@us.ibm.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-611

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations