CVE-2016-0217: IBM Cognos Analytics

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos Analytics are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.

Affected products

• IBM Cognos Analytics: version 11.0.0 only; version 11.0.1 only; version 11.0.2 only; version 11.0.3 only; version 11.0.4 only

Published 2017-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.