Name: IBM DB2 Remote Command Execution Privilege Upgrade Systems Affected: DB2 8.1 Enterprise Edition on Windows Severity: High/Low depending on environment Vendor URL: http://www.ibm.com/ Author: David Litchfield [ david@ngssoftware.com ] Date Vendor Notified: 6th September 2003 Date of Public Advisory: 9th March 2004 Advisory number: #NISR09032004 Advisory URL: http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/db2rmtcmd.txt
Description
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IBM's DB2 is the market share leader for database server software. One of the components, the Remote Command Server, contains a vulnerability that can allow attackers to gain administrative privileges on the server running DB2.
Details
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DB2 with the Remote Command Server, DB2RCMD.EXE, listens on a named pipe DB2REMOTECMD and executes commands sent through it. When a connection is made to the pipe a new process is created, namely db2rcmdc.exe, and this executes the command. Whilst a valid Windows user id and password are required the command executes with the privileges of the "db2admin" account which is an administrator.
This essentially means that even a low privileged "Guest" account can run commands remotely with administrative privileges. This can lead to a compromise of the server running DB2.
Fix Information
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IDM have included a fix for this problem in Fixpak 5 - http://www-306.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/data/db2/udb/winos2unix/support/v8fphist.d2w/report .
The APAR for this specific issue is IY53894 - http://www-306.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/data/db2/udb/winos2unix/support/aparlib.d2w/display_apar_details?aparno=IY53894 .
About NGSSoftware
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