Vulnerability in IBM Informix

CVE-2002-0905

Buffer overflow in sqlexec for Informix SE-7.25 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long INFORMIXDIR environment variable.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.5th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 63.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2002-0905: held from 0.011 to 0.011.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • IBM Informix — versions 7.25_.uc1_se, 7.25_.uc2_se, 7.25_.uc3_se

References