CVE-2016-5995 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2016-5995

Untrusted search path vulnerability in IBM DB2 9.7 through FP11,...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

db2, db2 connect
Vulnerable Versions:
9.7, 9.7.0.1, 9.7.0.2, 9.7.0.3, 9.7.0.4, 9.7.0.5, 9.7.0.6, 9.7.0.7, 9.7.0.8, 9.7.0.9, 9.7.0.10, 9.7.0.11, 10.1, 10.1.0.1, 10.1.0.2, 10.1.0.3, 10.1.0.4, 10.1.0.5, 10.5, 10.5.0.1, 10.5.0.2, 10.5.0.3, 10.5.0.4, 10.5.0.5, 10.5.0.6, 10.5.0.7, 11.1.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 1st, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.