Memory leak in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2025-1992

 

Memory leak in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2025-1992

Published: July 22, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU113108
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-1992
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient release of allocated memory after usage. A remote user can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.


Affected software

IBM DB2 LUW
IBM Cloud Pak System
Db2 Big SQL
IBM OpenPages with Watson
Storage Protect Server
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)

How to mitigate CVE-2025-1992

Install updates from vendor's website.

Db2 Big SQL - update to 8.0
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.4
Storage Protect Server - update to 8.1.27.100

External References

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