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CVE-2016-0254

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 and 10.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE)…

Medium6.5EPSS 1.9%
Published
Updated
Reserved
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ibm

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2016-0254, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0Medium6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • IBM · Cognos Business Intelligence

    • affected 10.1.1
    • affected 10.2
    • affected 10.2.1
    • affected 10.2.1.1
    • affected 10.2.2

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