MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2010-0462

Db2 vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
7.5%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Heap-based buffer overflow in IBM DB2 9.1 before FP9, 9.5 before FP6, and 9.7 before FP2 allows remote authenticated users to have an unspecified impact via a SELECT statement that has a long column name generated with the REPEAT function.
Affected vendor
Ibm
Affected product
Db2
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2010-01-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2010-0462

  • Confirm whether Ibm Db2 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-0462.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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