CVE-2005-4871

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Certain XML functions in IBM DB2 8.1 run with the privileges of DB2 instead of the logged-in user, which allows remote attackers to create or overwrite files via (1) XMLFileFromVarchar or (2) XMLFileFromClob, or read files via (3) XMLVarcharFromFile or (4) XMLClobFromFile.

Certain XML functions in IBM DB2 8.1 run with the privileges of DB2 instead of the logged-in user, which allows remote attackers to create or overwrite files via (1) XMLFileFromVarchar or (2) XMLFileFromClob, or read files via (3) XMLVarcharFromFile or (4) XMLClobFromFile.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:29:00

Affected Software

IBM DB2 8.1

8.1

References

20050105 IBM DB2 XML functions file creation vulnerabilities (#NISR05012005I)

12733

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/db205012005I.txt

Patch

12170

db2-xml-file-creation(18761)

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