CVE-2008-3856: IBM DB2 Universal Database

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The routine infrastructure component in IBM DB2 8 before FP17, 9.1 before FP5, and 9.5 before FP1 on Unix and Linux does not change the ownership of the db2fmp process, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Affected products

• IBM DB2 Universal Database: up to and including 8; up to and including 9.1; version 8 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.1 only

Published 2008-08-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.