CVE-2007-4275

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allow local users to gain privileges via certain vectors related to (1) DB2 instance or FMP startup on Linux and Solaris; (2) exec of executables while running as root on non-Windows systems, as demonstrated by AIX; and unspecified vectors involving (3) db2licm and (4) db2pd.

Affected products

IBM Db2 Universal Database: through 8.0; through 9.1

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=582
http://secunia.com/advisories/26471
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY97922
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY97936
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98176
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98206
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ01923
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ02067
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

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