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01 Record

CVE-2018-1426

IBM GSKit (IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1) duplicates the PRNG state across fork() system calls when multiple ICC instances are loaded which could result in duplicate

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: ibm
CNA base score7.4 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/A:N/AC:H/AV:N/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
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02 Description

IBM GSKit (IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1) duplicates the PRNG state across fork() system calls when multiple ICC instances are loaded which could result in duplicate

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
2.41% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 83.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
9.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2018-03-22 12:00Z8 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-16 21:04Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2017-12-13
Assigning CNA
ibm
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.4)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/A:N/AC:H/AV:N/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
Weaknesses
  • CWE-335Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)Base
Data version
5.1
Document digest
015c4467b3051f750eca36b4ab2a3029ed8c968e2375b994563acc0f67383680

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
IBMDB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows10.5, 10.1, 9.7, 11.1—

06 References