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CVE-2008-3857

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2008-08-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Ibm Db2 Universal Database

Weakness Type

CWE-200

References