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CVE-2008-3857

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-200 Information Leak / Disclosure
Publication date:
28/08/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:*:aix:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:*:hp_ux:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:*:solaris:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp2:aix:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp2:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp2:linux:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp2:solaris:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp2:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp3:aix:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp3:hp-ux:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp3:linux:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp3:solaris:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.1:fp3:windows:*:*:*:*:*

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