CVE-2016-5995: IBM DB2

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in IBM DB2 9.7 through FP11, 10.1 through FP5, 10.5 before FP8, and 11.1 GA on Linux, AIX, and HP-UX allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library that is accessed by a setuid or setgid program.

Affected products

• IBM DB2: version 9.7 only; version 9.7.0.1 only; version 9.7.0.2 only; version 9.7.0.3 only; version 9.7.0.4 only; version 9.7.0.5 only; …
• IBM DB2 Connect: version 9.7 only; version 9.7.0.1 only; version 9.7.0.2 only; version 9.7.0.3 only; version 9.7.0.4 only; version 9.7.0.5 only; …

Published 2016-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.