CVE-2011-0486 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cognos.cgi in IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before FP1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the pathinfo parameter.

Published: 2011-01-18

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_8_business_intelligence:8.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2011-0506	Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cognos.cgi in IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before FP1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the pathinfo parameter.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00427.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/70485
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024954
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24026110
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515643/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45781
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0090
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64660

History

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Subscriptions

Ibm Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-01-18T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:51:09.167Z

Reserved: 2011-01-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-0486

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-01-18T18:03:08.470

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-0486

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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