CVE-2007-5757: IBM DB2 Universal Database

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

Untrusted search path vulnerability in db2pd in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) 8 before FixPak 16 and 9 before Fix Pack 4 allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified DB2INSTANCE environment variable that points to a malicious library. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2008-0697.

Affected products

• IBM DB2 Universal Database: up to and including 8.0; version 9.0 only

Published 2008-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.