QID 375395

Date Published: 2021-03-23

QID 375395: IBM MQ DOS Vulnerability(303559)

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-2018-1371: An IBM MQ client connecting to an MQ queue manager can cause a SIGSEGV in the amqrmppa channel process terminating it.

Affected Versions:
IBM MQ V 8.0.0.8
IBM MQ V9 LTS 9.0.0.2
IBM MQ version 9.0.4

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.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could leads to cause Denial of service and may crash the process.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4 severity.
    • Solution
    The vendor has released a fix to resolve the issue, please refer to 303559 for more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 375395

    CVE-2018-1371 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    303559 URL Logo www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/303559
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