CVE-2018-1566 Code injection in DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

What is CVE-2018-1566?

CVE-2018-1566 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Ibm Db2, published on 10 Jul 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1 could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code due to a format string error. IBM X-Force ID: 143023.

Weakness: CWE-134

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1566?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1566?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1566 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2018-1566 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1566 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Db2

• CVE-2012-1797 IBM DB2 9.5 uses world-writable permissions for nodes.reg, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors. Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3731 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3193 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-4335 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-3473 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 10.0

All Ibm Db2 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-v4fr-h2pm-fq93.