CVE-2008-3857

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2008-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.

Affected products

IBM Db2 Universal Database: 9.1, 9.1-fp2, 9.1-fp3, 9.1-fp4, 9.1-fp4a

References

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR27422
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29601
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1769
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45139
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR27422
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29601
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1769
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45139

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