IBM Cognos Analytics CVE-2016-3032 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	98429
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2016-3032
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Apr 25 2017 12:00AM
Updated:	May 23 2017 04:25PM
Credit:	Mohit Rawat and Sagar Pasrija.
Vulnerable:	IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.3 IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.2 IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.1 IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.6.0 IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.5.0 IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.4.0 IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0
Not Vulnerable:

IBM Cognos Analytics CVE-2016-3032 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

IBM Cognos Analytics is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.0.0 and later are vulnerable.

IBM Cognos Analytics CVE-2016-3032 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

To exploit this issue an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim to open a malicious URI.

IBM Cognos Analytics CVE-2016-3032 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

IBM Cognos Analytics CVE-2016-3032 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• IBM Cognos Analytics Homepage (IBM)
  
• IBM Homepage (IBM)
  
• swg21999791: Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affects Cognos Analytics (IBM)