Security Advisory

CVE-2016-0218

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-02-01 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 22:08:13
Assigner ibm
State PUBLISHED

Description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos Analytics are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victims Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victims cookie-based authentication credentials.