CVE-2016-0254: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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 2017-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.