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CVE-2016-5995
Untrusted search path vulnerability in IBM DB2 9.7 through FP11, 10.1 through FP5, 10.5 before FP8, and 11.1 GA on Linux, AIX, and HP-UX…
High7.3EPSS 0.41%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in IBM DB2 9.7 through FP11, 10.1 through FP5, 10.5 before FP8, and 11.1 GA on Linux, AIX, and HP-UX allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library that is accessed by a setuid or setgid program.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 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 | 3.0 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- IT17012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IT16921 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 1036837 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 93012 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- IT17010 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21990061 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- IT17011 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_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)
- 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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