🛡️ CVE-2025-36184 — db2

🟠 CVSS 7.2 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-250 NVD

7.2

CVSS Score

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Description

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 11.5.0 - 11.5.9 could allow an instance owner to execute malicious code that escalate their privileges to root due to execution of unnecessary privileges operated at a higher than minimum level.

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 high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-36184 is classified as CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. The software runs with more privilege than the task needs, so any flaw in it inherits that privilege.

Affected software

CVE-2025-36184 is recorded against 1 package.

db2 (from 11.5.0 up to 11.5.9)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 January 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.ibm.com

CVE-2025-36184 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 7.2

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE CWE-250

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2026-01-30

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7257519

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
db2	11.5.0	11.5.9

References

Patch, Vendor Advisory https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7257519

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