A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM DB2 shipped with IBM Maximo Asset Management (CVE-2019-4094)

Summary

IBM DB2 is shipped as a component of IBM Maximo Asset Management. Information about the security vulnerability affecting IBM DB2 has been published in a security bulletin.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2019-4094 DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) binaries load shared libraries from an untrusted path potentially giving low privilege user full access to root by loading a malicious shared library.

CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158014&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

This vulnerability affects the following versions of the IBM Maximo Asset Management core product, and all other IBM Maximo Industry Solution and IBM Control Desk products, regardless of their own version, if they are currently installed on top of an affected IBM Maximo Asset Management. *

Maximo Asset Management core product affected versions:
Maximo Asset Management 7.6

Industry Solutions products affected if using an affected core version:
Maximo for Aviation
Maximo for Life Sciences
Maximo for Nuclear Power
Maximo for Oil and Gas
Maximo for Transportation
Maximo for Utilities

IBM Control Desk products affected if using an affected core version:
SmartCloud Control Desk
IBM Control Desk
Tivoli Integration Composer

• To determine the core product version, log in and view System Information. The core product version is the “Tivoli’s process automation engine” version. Please consult the Product Coexistence Matrix for a list of supported product combinations.

Remediation/Fixes

Please consult the following security bulletin for vulnerability details and information about fixes:

IBM® Db2® is vulnerable to privilege escalation via loading libraries from an untrusted path (CVE-2019-4094)

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

21 March 2019: Original version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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