Vulnerability in IBM Informix Dynamic Database Server

CVE-2006-3857

Multiple buffer overflows in IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) before 9.40.TC6 and 10.00 before 10.00.TC3 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via (1) the getname function, as used by (a) _sq_remview, (b) _sq_remproc, (c) _sq_remperms, (d) _sq_distfetch, and (e) _sq_dcatalog; and the (2) SET DEBUG FILE, (3) IFX_FILE_TO_FILE, (4) FILETOCLOB, (5) LOTOFILE, and (6) DBINFO functions (product defect IDs 171649, 171367, 171387, 171391, 171906, 172179).

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.039 (89.9th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.9% 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-2006-3857: held from 0.038 to 0.039.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.038 · newest: 0.039 · change: +0.001

Affected products

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