CVE-2007-4271: IBM DB2 Universal Database

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable, which is appended to "/tmp/" and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.

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.