CVE-2007-4270: IBM DB2 Universal Database

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple race conditions in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allow local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on certain files.

Affected products

• IBM DB2 Universal Database: up to and including 8.0; up to and including 9.1

Published 2007-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.