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CVE-2007-5956
Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) before 10.00.xC7W1 allows local users to gain privileges by…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) before 10.00.xC7W1 allows local users to gain privileges by referencing modified NLS message files through directory traversal sequences in the DBLANG environment variable.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 27542 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20071109 IBM Informix Dynamic Server DBLANG Directory Traversal Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 26363 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- IC54252 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3757 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ibm-ids-dblang-directory-traversal(38297) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27011082 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2007-5926 (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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