IBM DB2 Remote Command Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:9821

Info

IBM DB2 Remote Command Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9821
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0795
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 09 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 03:06AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to David Litchfield.
Vulnerable: IBM DB2 Universal Database for Windows 8.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

IBM DB2 Remote Command Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

IBM DB2 Remote Command Server is prone to a vulnerability that may permit authenticated users to gain administrative access to the underlying database. This is because when the server accepts commands from legitimate users, it spawns another process with elevated privileges to execute the commands. In this manner, a user may execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the db2admin account.

This issue is only known to exist on Windows platforms, though there have been conflicting details reported that seem to indicate that this issue may also affected DB2 releases for other platforms.

Exploit / POC

IBM DB2 Remote Command Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

There is no exploit required.

Solution / Fix

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IBM DB2 Remote Command Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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