CVE-2018-1780

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Nov 9, 2018
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Dec 13, 2017

Description

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1 could allow a local db2 instance owner to obtain root access by exploiting a symbolic link attack to read/write/corrupt a file that they originally did not have permission to access. IBM X-Force ID: 148803.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.8 High	CVSS:3.0/A:H/AC:L/AV:L/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:U/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O	ibm

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
DB2 for Linux, UNIX and WindowsIBM	10.5Affected 10.1Affected 9.7Affected 11.1Affected

References

105885vdb-entry
ibm-db2-cve20181780-priv-escalation(148803)vdb-entry
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10733939
1042086vdb-entry

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