CVE-2025-27901 (GCVE-0-2025-27901)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-02-17 19:35
Modified
2026-02-17 20:08
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-644 - Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax
Summary
IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for LUW 5.5 Interim Fix 002 IBM Db2 Recovery Expert for Linux, UNIX and Windows is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers.  This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
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IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for LUW Version: 5.5 Interim Fix 002   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_recovery_expert_for_luw:5.5:interim_fix_002:*:*:*:*:*:*
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