CVE-2006-3862

Informix Dynamic Server vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 9.40.TC5 through 9.40.xC7 and 10.00.TC1 through 10.00.xC3 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via the SQLIDEBUG environment variable (envariable).

Affected vendor

Ibm

Affected product

Informix Dynamic Server

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2006-08-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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