CVE-2008-3857

MediumCVSS 4.6/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.6/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-200

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Aug 28, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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