CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4271

2.1 LOW Published 2007-08-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-08-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm db2 universal database (<= 8.0) • ibm db2 universal database (<= 9.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References