CVE-2025-27902 (GCVE-0-2025-27902)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-12 19:04
Modified
2026-10-12 22:53
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-1022 - Use of Web Link to Untrusted Target with window.opener Access
Summary
IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for Linux, UNIX and Windows 5.5 IF 2 uses a web link with untrusted references to an external site. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions on the victims’ web browser
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for Linux, UNIX and Windows Version: 5.5 IF 2
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_recovery_expert:5.5.0:if2:*:*:*:windows:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_recovery_expert:5.5.0:if2:*:*:*:linux:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_recovery_expert:5.5.0:if2:*:*:*:unix:*:*
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