Description
The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.
Published: 2008-08-28
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-3843 The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.
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Ibm Db2 Universal Database
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:53:00.417Z

Reserved: 2008-08-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-3857

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-08-28T17:41:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-3857

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