CVE-2008-1880: Firebird

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default configuration of Firebird before 2.0.3.12981.0-r6 on Gentoo Linux sets the ISC_PASSWORD environment variable before starting Firebird, which allows remote attackers to bypass SYSDBA authentication and obtain sensitive database information via an empty password.

Affected products

• Firebird Firebird: up to and including 2.0.3.12981.0; version 2.0.3.12981.0 only

Published 2008-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.