CVE-2012-0712

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-03-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The XML feature in IBM DB2 9.5 before FP9, 9.7 through FP5, and 9.8 through FP4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by calling the XMLPARSE function with a crafted string expression.

Affected products

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: 9.5, 9.5-fp1, 9.5-fp2, 9.5-fp2a, 9.5-fp3, 9.5-fp3a (+18)

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC81379
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC81380
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC81837
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21588098
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73496
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14450
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC81379
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC81380
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC81837
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21588098
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73496
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14450

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