CVE-2026-18097: IBM DB2

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Db2 11.5.0 through 11.5.9, and 12.1.0 through 12.1.5 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information due to the logging of plain text passwords in trace files.

Affected products

• IBM DB2: from 11.5.0, up to and including 11.5.9; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5

Published 2026-08-12. Last modified 2026-08-17.