Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

CVE-2018-1780 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1 could allow a local db2 instance owner to obtain root access by exploiting a symbolic link attack to read/write/corrupt a file that they originally did not have permission to access. IBM X-Force ID: 148803.

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