CVE-2008-1997

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the ADMIN_SP_C2 procedure in IBM DB2 8 before FP16, 9.1 before FP4a, and 9.5 before FP1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors. NOTE: the ADMIN_SP_C issue is already covered by CVE-2008-0699.

Affected products

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: 8.0, 8.0-fixpak1, 8.0-fixpak10, 8.0-fixpak11, 8.0-fixpak12, 8.0-fixpak13 (+25)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29022
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3841
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ06972
http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2008-02.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491075/100/0/threaded
http://secunia.com/advisories/29022
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3841
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ06972
http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2008-02.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491075/100/0/threaded

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