Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2 before IF20, 10.2.1 before IF17, 10.2.1.1 before IF16, 10.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• ibm cognos business intelligence10.1.1
• ibm cognos business intelligence10.2
• ibm cognos business intelligence10.2.1
• ibm cognos business intelligence10.2.1.1
• ibm cognos business intelligence10.2.2

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2012-4858IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before IF1, 10.1 before IF2, 10.1.1 before IF2, and 10.2 before IF1 does not properly validate J
  38Monitor
• CVE-2018-1934IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and u
  35Monitor
• CVE-2016-8960IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2 could allow a user with lower privilege Capabilities to adopt the Capabilities of a higher-privilege u
  35Monitor
• CVE-2016-3036IBM Cognos TM1 10.1 and 10.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow when parsing packets.
  31Monitor
• CVE-2017-1764IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, and 10.2.2, under specialized circumstances, could expose plain text credentials to
  28Monitor
• CVE-2016-0254IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 and 10.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error
  27Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

1commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.