QID 378551

Date Published: 2023-06-27

QID 378551: IBM MQ Explorer Extensible Markup Language (XML) External Entity Injection (XXE) Vulnerability (6613021)

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

IBM MQ Explorer is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack.

Affected Version:
IBM MQ 8.0, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2

QID Detection Logic: (Authenticated)
Operating System: Windows
It checks for vulnerable IBM MQ versions.

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.

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.1 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

Solution

Please refer to advisory IBM MQ 6613021 for further information.

Vendor References

6613021 - www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6613021

CVEs related to QID 378551

CVE-2022-22489 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
6613021			www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6613021

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