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Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Appliance is affected by a denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2020-4267)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM MQ Appliance has addressed the following denial of service vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-4267
DESCRIPTION:   IBM MQ and MQ Appliance could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service due to a memory leak.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175840 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0
IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 LTS
IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 CD

Remediation/Fixes

IBM MQ Appliance V8
Apply FixPack 8.0.0.14

IBM MQ Appliance V9.1 LTS
Apply FixPack 9.1.0.5

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

20 Apr 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
22 April 2020

UID

ibm16195384

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