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CVE-2019-4620 — IBM MQ Appliance 8

IBM MQ Appliance 8.0 and 9.0 LTS could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by improper validation of environment variables. IBM X-Force ID: 168863.

CVSS
8.4 HIGH
EPSS
0.04% (top 87.20%)
CWE
—
Published
2020-01-28T18:30:53.030Z
Last modified
2024-09-17T03:18:41.467Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/S:U/A:H/I:H/AC:L/AV:L/C:H/UI:N/PR:N/RC:C/E:U/RL:O

01What is this vulnerability?

IBM MQ Appliance 8.0 and 9.0 LTS could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by improper validation of environment variables. IBM X-Force ID: 168863.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
IBMMQ Appliance8.0.0.3, 8.0.0.4, 8.0.0.5, 8.0.0.6, 8.0.0.0, 8.0.0.10, 8.0.0.11, 9.1.0.1, 9.1.1, 8.0.0.1, 8.0.0.7, 8.0.0.9, 8.0.0.12, 9.1.0.2, 9.1.2, 9.1.0.3, 9.1.3, 9.1, 8.0.0.13

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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