CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-4447

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-08-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-08-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

IBM DB2 High Performance Unload load for LUW 6.1, 6.1.0.1, 6.1.0.1 IF1, 6.1.0.2, 6.1.0.2 IF1, and 6.1.0.1 IF2 db2hpum_debug is a setuid root binary which trusts the PATH environment variable. A low privileged user can execute arbitrary commands as root by altering the PATH variable to point to a user controlled location. When a crash is induced the trojan gdb command is executed. IBM X-Force ID: 163488.

Affected configurations

• ibm db2 high performance unload load 6.1 • ibm db2 high performance unload load 6.1.0.1 • ibm db2 high performance unload load 6.1.0.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References