QID 378560

Date Published: 2023-06-29

QID 378560: IBM MQ LibcURL Multiple Vulnerabilities (6952185)

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 9.0,9.1,9.2,9.3 LTS

IBM MQ 9.1,9.2,9.3 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.

Note: This QID does not checks for IBM MQ installable components, hence kept as practice

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to reuse a previously created FTP connection.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Low - 0 severity.
  • Solution
    Please refer to advisory IBM MQ 6986579 for further information.

    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    6986579 URL Logo www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6986579
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