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CVE-2026-78404

IBM® Db2® is vulnerable to local privilege escalation via the db2pd utility

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.5
EPSS
EPSS 0.09 % · percentile 0 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
ibm
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

IBM Db2 11.5.0 through 11.5.9, and 12.1.0 through 12.1.5 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation via the db2pd utility.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Nibm
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
IBM · Db2affected 11.5.0 ≤ 11.5.9 ; affected 12.1.0 ≤ 12.1.5

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD