CVE-2007-5757

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Untrusted search path vulnerability in db2pd in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) 8 before FixPak 16 and 9 before Fix Pack 4 allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified DB2INSTANCE environment variable that points to a malicious library. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2008-0697.

Vulnerabilidad de ruta de búsqueda no confiable en db2pd de IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) versiones anteriores a 8 FixPak 16 y versiones anteriores a 9 Fix Pack 4 permite a usuarios locales conseguir privilegios de root mediante la modificación de la variable de entorno DB2INSTANCE para que apunte a una librería maliciosa. NOTA: esto podría ser la misma cuestión que CVE-2008-0697.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2007-10-31 CVE Reserved
2008-02-12 CVE Published
2024-09-16 CVE Updated
2025-03-18 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/aparlist/db2_v82/APARLIST.TXT	X_refsource_confirm
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019319	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=653	2008-09-05

URL	Date	SRC
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ03546	2008-09-05

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"		fixpak_15		Affected
Ibm Search vendor "Ibm"		Db2 Universal Database Search vendor "Ibm" for product "Db2 Universal Database"				9.0 Search vendor "Ibm" for product "Db2 Universal Database" and version "9.0"		fixpak_3a		Affected