Information Disclosure in IBM DB2 Base Service Utilities Component
CVE-2008-3857

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: IBM
Status: Db2 Universal Database
Vendor: CVE Published:; 28 August 2008

What is CVE-2008-3857?

The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 prior to Fixpak 5 contains a vulnerability where it retains a cleartext password in memory after establishing the database connection. This may allow local users to exploit the system by reading memory dumps, potentially granting them access to sensitive authentication information.

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