CVE-2018-1451 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows versions 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1. A local attacker can exploit this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the DB2 instance owner. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.0 score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local user privileges, but it can lead to high integrity impact by allowing unauthorized file modification. There is no confidentiality or availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (e.g., Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE. It is not listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.