CVE-2007-4271
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (41th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4254)
- Published
- August 18, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4254 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ibm / db2 universal database
- ibm / db2 universal database
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=579
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26471(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98210
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY99261(Patch)
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255352
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
- http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25339
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2912
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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