CVE-2017-1508 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM Informix Dynamic Server 12.1, allowing a database administrator to gain root privileges on affected Linux systems. With a CVSS v3 score of 6.7 (Medium), exploitation requires high privileges (PR:H) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:informix_dynamic_server:12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.