Race condition in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2025-1493

 

Race condition in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2025-1493

Published: July 22, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU113111
CSH Severity: Medium
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-2025-1493
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to concurrent execution of shared resources. A remote user can exploit the race and gain unauthorized access to perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2025-1493

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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