VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-4871

CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.08%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-12-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Certain XML functions in IBM DB2 8.1 run with the privileges of DB2 instead of the logged-in user, which allows remote attackers to create or overwrite files via (1) XMLFileFromVarchar or (2) XMLFileFromClob, or read files via (3) XMLVarcharFromFile or (4) XMLClobFromFile.

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