CVE-2010-0557

high

Published 2010-02-05 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

Description

IBM Cognos Express 9.0 allows attackers to obtain unspecified access to the Tomcat Manager component, and cause a denial of service, by leveraging hardcoded credentials.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-16317 remote multiple verified

Metasploit · 2010-12-14

Apache Tomcat Manager - Application Deployer (Authenticated) Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/tomcat_mgr_login rank 300

Tomcat Application Manager Login Utility

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

exploit_multi/http/tomcat_mgr_deploy rank 600

Apache Tomcat Manager Application Deployer Authenticated Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

exploit_multi/http/tomcat_mgr_upload rank 600

Apache Tomcat Manager Authenticated Upload Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ibm	cognos_express	`9.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.