CVE-2009-4438: IBM DB2

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Query Compiler, Rewrite, and Optimizer component in IBM DB2 9.1 before FP8, 9.5 before FP5, and 9.7 before FP1 does not enforce privilege requirements for access to a (1) sequence or (2) global-variable object, which allows remote authenticated users to make use of data via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM DB2: version 9.1 only; version 9.5 only; version 9.7 only

Published 2009-12-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.