CVE-2003-1052: IBM DB2

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM DB2 7.1 and 8.1 allow the bin user to gain root privileges by modifying the shared libraries that are used in setuid root programs.

Affected products

• IBM DB2: version 9.0 only
• IBM DB2 Universal Database: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only; …

Published 2004-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.