CVE-2007-4271

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable, which is appended to "/tmp/" and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.

Affected products

IBM Db2 Universal Database: through 8.0; through 9.1

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=579
http://secunia.com/advisories/26471
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98210
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY99261
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255352
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25339
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2912
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=579
http://secunia.com/advisories/26471

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