QID 377867

Date Published: 2023-01-16

QID 377867: IBM MQ Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (6833806)

IBM MQ is a message oriented middleware that allows independent and non-concurrent applications on a distributed system to communicate with each other.

IBM MQ could allow an authenticated and authorized user to cause a denial of service to the MQTT channels.
Affected Version:
IBM MQ 8.0, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2

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 could result denial of service to the MQTT channels.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Low - 0 severity.
    • Solution
    Please refer to advisory IBM MQ 6833806 for further information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 377867

    CVE-2022-31772 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    6833806 URL Logo www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6833806
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