CVE-2018-1487

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
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: 2018-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-426

Description

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) 9.7, 10.1, 10.5 and 11.1 binaries load shared libraries from an untrusted path potentially giving low privilege users full access to the DB2 instance account by loading a malicious shared library. IBM X-Force ID: 140972.

Affected products

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, 11.1

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22016505
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041231
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/140972
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22016505
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041231
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/140972

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