CVE-2011-0486 (GCVE-0-2011-0486)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-18 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:51
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Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cognos.cgi in IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before FP1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the pathinfo parameter.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2011-01-12 00:00
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