CVE-2003-0898 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

IBM DB2 7.2 before FixPak 10a, and earlier versions including 7.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on (1) db2job and (2) db2job2.

Published: 2003-10-28

Score: 4.6 Medium

EPSS: 2.7% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:::linux:::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:7.1::linux:::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2003-0888	IBM DB2 7.2 before FixPak 10a, and earlier versions including 7.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on (1) db2job and (2) db2job2.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0271.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/db2aixv7/FP10a_U495172/FixpakReadme.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106010332721672&w=2

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ibm Db2 Universal Database

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-10-28T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:05:12.636Z

Reserved: 2003-10-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2003-0898

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-11-17T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2003-0898

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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