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CVE-2019-4656 — IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance 7

IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance 7.1, 7.5, 8.0, 9.0 LTS, 9.1 LTS, and 9.1 CD is vulnerable to a denial of service attack that would allow an authenticated user to crash the queue and require a restart due to an error processing error messages. IBM X-Force ID: 170967.

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.33% (top 44.20%)
CWE
—
Published
2020-03-16T15:25:20.439Z
Last modified
2024-09-17T04:18:51.019Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/UI:N/C:N/S:U/A:H/I:N/AC:L/PR:L/AV:N/RC:C/E:U/RL:O

01What is this vulnerability?

IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance 7.1, 7.5, 8.0, 9.0 LTS, 9.1 LTS, and 9.1 CD is vulnerable to a denial of service attack that would allow an authenticated user to crash the queue and require a restart due to an error processing error messages. IBM X-Force ID: 170967.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
IBMMQ9.0.0.1, 8.0.0.1, 8.0.0.2, 8.0.0.3, 8.0.0.4, 8.0.0.5, 8.0.0.6, 8.0.0.7, 9.0.0.2, 7.5.0.1, 7.5.0.2, 7.5.0.3, 7.5.0.4, 7.5.0.5, 7.5.0.6, 7.5.0.7, 7.5.0.8, 8.0.0.8, 7.1.0.1, 7.1.0.2, 7.1.0.3, 7.1.0.4, 7.1.0.5, 7.1.0.6, 7.1.0.7, 8.0.0.9, 9.0.0.3, 8.0.0.0, 8.0.0.10, 9.0.0.0, 9.0.0.4, 9.0.0.5, 9.1, 9.1.0.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.0.2, 9.1.2, 8.0.0.11, 9.0.0.6, 7.1.0.0, 7.1.0.8, 7.1.0.9, 7.5.0.0, 7.5.0.9, 8.0.0.12, 9.1.0.3, 9.1.3, 9.0.0.7, 8.0.0.13, 9.0.0.8

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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