CVE-2007-4271

Severity Score

7.1

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable, which is appended to "/tmp/" and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.

Vulnerabilidad de salto de directorio en IBM DB2 UDB 8 anterior a Fixpak 15 y 9.1 anterior Fixpak 3 permite a usuarios locales crear archivos de su elección a través de la secuencia .. (punto punto) en una variables de entorno no específicada, la cual se encuentra añadida a "/tmp/" y es utilizada como fichero de log. NOTA: este asunto podría estar relacionado con el seguimiento de enlaces simbólicos.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2007-08-09 CVE Reserved
2007-08-18 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CAPEC

References (10)

URL	Tag	Source
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=579	Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581	Vdb Entry
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255352	X_refsource_confirm
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607	X_refsource_confirm
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.html	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25339	Vdb Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2912	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/26471	2011-03-08
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY99261	2011-03-08

URL	Date	SRC
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98210	2011-03-08

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Ibm Search vendor "Ibm"		Db2 Universal Database Search vendor "Ibm" for product "Db2 Universal Database"				<= 8.0 Search vendor "Ibm" for product "Db2 Universal Database" and version " <= 8.0"		fp14		Affected
Ibm Search vendor "Ibm"		Db2 Universal Database Search vendor "Ibm" for product "Db2 Universal Database"				<= 9.1 Search vendor "Ibm" for product "Db2 Universal Database" and version " <= 9.1"		fp2		Affected