CVE-2007-4272
Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allow local users to create arbitrary files via (1)…
- 1.9LowCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 74% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allow local users to create arbitrary files via (1) unspecified vectors where an attacker's umask is honored, (2) /etc/ld.so.preload, (3) certain "cron data file locations", and other unspecified vectors possibly involving the (4) OSSEMEMDBG or (5) TRC_LOG_FILE environment variable in db2licd (db2licm).
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20070818 Recent DB2 Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VIMx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2912 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- db2-multiple-file-create(36104) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- IY98210 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 25339 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255352 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1018581 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 26471 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- IY98101 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IY98011 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 20070816 IBM DB2 Universal Database Multiple File Creation Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-4255 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-4272)Record last updated .