CVE-2016-0218: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

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 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 victim's 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 victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.

Affected products

• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence: version 10.1.1 only; version 10.2 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.1.1 only; version 10.2.2 only

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