CVE-2025-36186 IBM Db2 privilege escalation

What is CVE-2025-36186?

CVE-2025-36186 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ibm Db2, published on 7 Nov 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Db2 12.1.0 through 12.1.3 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) under specific configurations could allow a local user 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-2025-36186?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2.

How do I fix CVE-2025-36186?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-36186 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-36186 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-36186 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-r6qj-9qxh-457g.