CVE-2007-5757

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in db2pd in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) 8 before FixPak 16 and 9 before Fix Pack 4 allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified DB2INSTANCE environment variable that points to a malicious library. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2008-0697.

Affected products

IBM Db2 Universal Database: through 8.0; 9.0-fixpak_3a

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=653
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019319
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ03546
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=653
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019319
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ03546

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