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CVE-2005-4736

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4736 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) 8.20 before Fix Pack 10. Authenticated remote attackers can exploit a flaw in hash join operations to trigger an infinite loop, leading to excessive disk consumption and system unavailability. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a high impact on availability with low attack complexity, requiring authentication. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:8.0:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:8.1:*:aix:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:8.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:8.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:8.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/17031
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
www-1.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
ExploitPatch
securityfocus.com / bid/15126
Patch