CVE-2025-36184 IBM Db2 Privilege Escalation

What is CVE-2025-36184?

CVE-2025-36184 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ibm Db2, published on 30 Jan 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 11.5.0 - 11.5.9 could allow an instance owner to execute malicious code that escalate their privileges to root due to execution of unnecessary privileges operated at a higher than minimum level.

Weakness: CWE-250

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-36184?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2.

How do I fix CVE-2025-36184?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2025-36184 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-36184 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vfx9-gjv4-5p7r, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-36184.