CVE-2025-27898: IBM DB2 Recovery Expert

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for LUW 5.5 Interim Fix 002 does not invalidate session after a timeout which could allow an authenticated user to impersonate another user on the system.

Affected products

• IBM DB2 Recovery Expert: version 5.5.0 only

Published 2026-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.