CVE-2016-0254

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110563

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98971

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22004036

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-07

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00488