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CVE-2005-4871

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2005-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Certain XML functions in IBM DB2 8.1 run with the privileges of DB2 instead of the logged-in user, which allows remote attackers to create or overwrite files via (1) XMLFileFromVarchar or (2) XMLFileFromClob, or read files via (3) XMLVarcharFromFile or (4) XMLClobFromFile.

Affected Platforms

Ibm Db2

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References