CVE-2020-5025: IBM DB2

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5 db2fm is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking which could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 193661.

Affected products

• IBM DB2: from 11.1.0.0, before 11.1.4.6 (fixed in 11.1.4.6); from 11.5, before 11.5.5.0 (fixed in 11.5.5.0); version 9.7 only; version 10.1 only; version 10.5 only
• Netapp Oncommand Insight: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-03-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.