CVE-2025-27900: IBM DB2 Recovery Expert

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for LUW 5.5 Interim Fix 002 could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, using an open redirect attack. By persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the URL displayed to redirect a user to a malicious Web site that would appear to be trusted. This could allow the attacker to obtain highly sensitive information or conduct further attacks against the victim.

Affected products

• IBM DB2 Recovery Expert: version 5.5.0 only

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