Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 17, 2003· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2003-0898
CVE-2003-0898
Description
IBM DB2 7.2 before FixPak 10a, and earlier versions including 7.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain privileges via a symlink attack on (1) db2job and (2) db2job2.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:7.1:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:7.1:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:*:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*range: <=8.0
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