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CVE-2007-4271 Details

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable, which is appended to "/tmp/" and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=579	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/26471	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581	CVE
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98210	CVE
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY99261	CVE	Patch
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255352	CVE
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607	CVE
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.html	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25339	CVE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2912	CVE
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=579	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/26471	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581	[email protected]
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98210	[email protected]
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY99261	[email protected]	Patch
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255352	[email protected]
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607	[email protected]
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.html	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25339	[email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2912	[email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-22	Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ibm db2 universal database	<= 8.0 <= 9.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database::fp14::::::* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:::fp2:::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 20, 2007	Initial Analysis	[email protected]