CVE-2023-27558 (GCVE-0-2023-27558)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-09 23:32 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
IBM Db2 privilege escalation
Summary
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Severity
8.4 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-14 19:29 UTC
CWE
- 264 Permissions, Privileges, Access Controls
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7010571 | vendor-advisory |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entry |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023081… |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | Db2 for Windows |
Affected:
10.5, 11.1 ,11.5
|
guessed | |
| ibm | db2_windows |
Affected:
10.5
Affected: 11.1 Affected: 11.5 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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