4.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2003-0898

Published: 17/11/2003 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 465
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

IBM DB2 7.2 before FixPak 10a, and previous versions versions including 7.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on (1) db2job and (2) db2job2.

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ibm db2 universal database

ibm db2 universal database 7.1

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/8344/info IBM's DB2 database ships with a utility called db2job, installed with permissions 4550 and owned by rootdb2asgrp It has been reported that db2job writes to a number of files with root privileges The files written to are created with 0770 permissions (owner, group writeable) and are owned by r ...