CVE-2008-3857: IBM DB2 Universal Database

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.

Affected products

• IBM DB2 Universal Database: version 9.1 only

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