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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-3037

Medium
5.7/10

Summary

IBM Cognos TM1 10.1 and 10.2 provides a service to return the victim's password with a valid session key. An authenticated attacker with user interaction could obtain this sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 114613.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published