VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0254

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Published 2017-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.1.1
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2.1
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2.1.1
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2.2

References

CWEs

CWE-611

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

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