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CVE-2008-3959

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3959 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting IBM DB2 UDB versions 8.1, 8.2, and 9.1. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash a DB2 instance by sending a specially crafted SQLJRA packet during a connect/attach request. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:*:fp15:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:*:fp8:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:8.1:fp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:8.1:fp10:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:8.1:fp11:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0219 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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/29022
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45134
www-1.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Patch
appsecinc.com / resources/alerts/db2/2008-01.shtml