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Security Bulletin: IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-4338)

Security Bulletin


Summary

An incomplete fix for CVE-2019-4719 in IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance could still allow attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-4338
DESCRIPTION:   IBM MQ could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information by inclusion of sensitive data within runmqras data.
CVSS Base score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/177937 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 CD
Other versions affected by the original CVE-2019-4719 issue are not affected by the issue described in this bulletin.

Remediation/Fixes

IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance V9.1 CD
Upgrade to version 9.1.5

Workarounds and Mitigations

Avoid use of the -ftppassword parameter to runmqras.

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

7 April 2020: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
15 April 2020

Initial Publish date:
07 April 2020

UID

ibm16172539

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