QID 375102

Date Published: 2021-03-24

QID 375102: IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance Denial Of Service(DOS) Vulnerability(562175)

The IBM MQ Appliance is a hardware product that provides IBM MQ ready installed and ready to use.The main use of IBM MQ is to send or exchange messages. One application puts a message on a queue on one computer, and another application gets the same message from another queue on a different computer.

CVE-2017-1557: IBM MQ could allow an authenticated user with authority to send a specially crafted request that could cause a channel process to cease processing further requests.

Affected Versions:
IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance v8.0.0.0 to v8.0.0.7
IBM MQ v9.0.0.0 LTS to v9.0.0.1 LTS
IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance v9.0.1 CD to v9.0.3 CD

QID Detection Logic: (Authenticated)
Operating System: Linux
The QID runs the command "/opt/mqm/bin/dspmqver -v | grep -A3 '^Name'" and "/usr/mqm/bin/dspmqver -v | grep -A3 '^Name'" (for AIX only) to see if the system is running a vulnerable version of IBM MQ or not.
Operating System: Windows
It checks for vulnerable IBM MQ/WebSphere MQ versions.

QID Detection Logic(unauthenticated):
This QID checks for the vulnerable version of IBM MQ

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated user with authority to send a specially crafted request that could cause a channel process to cease processing further requests.

CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 4.3 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4 severity.

Solution

The vendor has released a fix to resolve the issue, please refer to 562175 for more information.

Vendor References

562175 - www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/562175

CVEs related to QID 375102

CVE-2017-1557 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
562175			www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/562175

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