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CVE-2009-2859

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2859 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM DB2 versions 8.1 prior to Fix Pack 18, allowing an attacker to gain unspecified access through a "das command." With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:*:fp17:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:8.1:fp12:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 3,052 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

ftp.software.ibm.com / ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/aparlist/db2_v82/APARLIST.TXT
secunia.com / advisories/36313
Vendor Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2293
PatchVendor Advisory