🛡️ CVE-2025-2669 — db2

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity high, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-2669 is classified as CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation. A TLS certificate is accepted without proper verification, so a man-in-the-middle can present their own.

Affected software

CVE-2025-2669 is recorded against 2 packages.

• db2 (from 4.8 up to 5.4)
• db2-warehouse (from 4.8 up to 5.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 22 June 2026 and last revised on 30 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.ibm.com

Other advisories for this package

db2 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-10695 (6.2 Medium, published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-10535 (8.4 High, published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-9762 (7.8 High, published 17 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-7771 (5.5 Medium, published 17 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-11906 (6.5 Medium, published 30 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2025-36372 (5.5 Medium, published 30 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-10109 (9.8 Critical, published 30 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2024-54178 (6.5 Medium, published 22 Jun 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation) in other software:

• CVE-2026-49283 (8.7 High, published 19 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-50149 (6.5 Medium, published 19 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-53475 (9.5 Critical, published 18 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-49457 (9.5 Critical, published 14 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-54481 (8.0 High, published 13 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-66406 (4.8 Medium, published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-66404 (6.5 Medium, published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-66410 (4.8 Medium, published 10 Aug 2026)

Details

Affected Packages

References