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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM MQ Operator and Queue manager container images

Security Bulletin


Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were addressed in IBM MQ Operator and Queue manager container images

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-47914
DESCRIPTION:   SSH Agent servers do not validate the size of messages when processing new identity requests, which may cause the program to panic if the message is malformed due to an out of bounds read.
CWE:   CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   5.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-58181
DESCRIPTION:   SSH servers parsing GSSAPI authentication requests do not validate the number of mechanisms specified in the request, allowing an attacker to cause unbounded memory consumption.
CWE:   CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   5.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-9230
DESCRIPTION:   Issue summary: An application trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using password based encryption can trigger an out-of-bounds read and write. Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application. The out-of-bounds write can cause a memory corruption which can have various consequences including a Denial of Service or Execution of attacker-supplied code. Although the consequences of a successful exploit of this vulnerability could be severe, the probability that the attacker would be able to perform it is low. Besides, password based (PWRI) encryption support in CMS messages is very rarely used. For that reason the issue was assessed as Moderate severity according to our Security Policy. The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the CMS implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
CWE:   CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-47907
DESCRIPTION:   Cancelling a query (e.g. by cancelling the context passed to one of the query methods) during a call to the Scan method of the returned Rows can result in unexpected results if other queries are being made in parallel. This can result in a race condition that may overwrite the expected results with those of another query, causing the call to Scan to return either unexpected results from the other query or an error.
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   7
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-47913
DESCRIPTION:   SSH clients receiving SSH_AGENT_SUCCESS when expecting a typed response will panic and cause early termination of the client process.
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   7.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-47906
DESCRIPTION:   If the PATH environment variable contains paths which are executables (rather than just directories), passing certain strings to LookPath ("", ".", and ".."), can result in the binaries listed in the PATH being unexpectedly returned.
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   6.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-4673
DESCRIPTION:   Proxy-Authorization and Proxy-Authenticate headers persisted on cross-origin redirects potentially leaking sensitive information.
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   6.8
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-64329
DESCRIPTION:   containerd is an open-source container runtime. Versions 1.7.28 and below, 2.0.0-beta.0 through 2.0.6, 2.1.0-beta.0 through 2.1.4, and 2.2.0-beta.0 through 2.2.0-rc.1 contain a bug in the CRI Attach implementation where a user can exhaust memory on the host due to goroutine leaks. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.29, 2.0.7, 2.1.5 and 2.2.0. To workaround this vulnerability, users can set up an admission controller to control accesses to pods/attach resources.
CWE:   CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
CVSS Source:   security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score:   6.9
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-25621
DESCRIPTION:   containerd is an open-source container runtime. Versions 0.1.0 through 1.7.28, 2.0.0-beta.0 through 2.0.6, 2.1.0-beta.0 through 2.1.4 and 2.2.0-beta.0 through 2.2.0-rc.1 have an overly broad default permission vulnerability. Directory paths `/var/lib/containerd`, `/run/containerd/io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri` and `/run/containerd/io.containerd.sandbox.controller.v1.shim` were all created with incorrect permissions. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.29, 2.0.7, 2.1.5 and 2.2.0. Workarounds include updating system administrator permissions so the host can manually chmod the directories to not have group or world accessible permissions, or to run containerd in rootless mode.
CWE:   CWE-279: Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions
CVSS Source:   security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score:   7.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM MQ Operator

SC2: v3.2.0 - v3.2.19

CD:  v3.3.0, v3.4.0, v3.4.1, v3.5.0, v3.5.1 - v3.5.3, v3.6.0 - v3.6.4, v3.7.0 - v3.7.2

LTS: v2.0.0 - 2.0.29

IBM supplied MQ Advanced container images

SC2: 9.4.0.6-r1, 9.4.0.6-r2, 9.4.0.7-r1, 9.4.0.10-r1, 9.4.0.10-r2, 9.4.0.11-r1, 9.4.0.11-r2, 9.4.0.11-r3, 9.4.0.12-r1, 9.4.0.15-r1 - 9.4.0.15-r4, 9.4.0.16-r1 

CD: 9.4.1.0-r1, 9.4.1.0-r2, 9.4.1.1-r1, 9.4.2.0-r1, 9.4.2.0-r2, 9.4.2.1-r1, 9.4.2.1-r2, 9.4.3.0-r1, 9.4.3.0-r2, 9.4.3.1-r1 - 9.4.3.1-r3, 9.4.4.0-r1 - 9.4.4.0-r3

LTS: 9.3.0.0-r1, 9.3.0.0-r2, 9.3.0.0-r3, 9.3.0.1-r1, 9.3.0.1-r2, 9.3.0.1-r3, 9.3.0.1-r4, 9.3.0.3-r1, 9.3.0.4-r1, 9.3.0.4-r2, 9.3.0.5-r1, 9.3.0.5-r2, 9.3.0.5-r3, 9.3.0.6-r1, 9.3.0.10-r1, 9.3.0.10-r2, 9.3.0.11-r1,9.3.0.11-r2, 9.3.0.15-r1, 9.3.0.16-r1, 9.3.0.16-r2, 9.3.0.17-r1, 9.3.0.17-r2, 9.3.0.17-r3, 9.3.0.20-r1, 9.3.0.20-r2, 9.3.0.21-r1, 9.3.0.21-r2, 9.3.0.21-r3, 9.3.0.25-r1, 9.4.0.0-r1, 9.4.0.0-r2, 9.4.0.0-r3, 9.4.0.5-r1, 9.4.0.5-r2 

 

Remediation/Fixes

Issues mentioned by this security bulletin are addressed in -

  • IBM MQ Operator v3.8.0 CD release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced 9.4.4.0-r4 container image. 
  • IBM MQ Operator v3.2.20 SC2 release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced 9.4.0.16-r2 container image.
  • IBM MQ Container 9.4.4.0-r4 release.

IBM strongly recommends applying the latest container images. 

IBM MQ Operator v3.8.0 CD release details:

Image

Fix Version

Registry

Image Location

ibm-mq-operator

v3.8.0

icr.io

icr.io/cpopen/ibm-mq-operator@sha256:ad70a7161096c946ab195675ff559d92f4c6a8836a7eb78b2b82b5e14c643a40

ibm-mqadvanced-server

9.4.4.0-r4

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server@sha256:cd232f0f3f211e2f3ccabfef1a63419c201a4e4b62bc1a057ddae72957a04f78

ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration

9.4.4.0-r4

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration@sha256:beeddf8380ad65f1f65e966fdcf7883b9e9fb26bea95add7b686944fa0d58f51

ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev

9.4.4.0-r4

icr.io

icr.io/ibm-messaging/ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev@sha256:7f0b57a5f708bdae77e022317dc0784c8d90df604c4c6af9b6894444e82a5c4a


IBM MQ Operator v3.2.20 SC2 release details:

Image

Fix Version

Registry

Image Location

ibm-mq-operator

v3.2.20

icr.io

icr.io/cpopen/ibm-mq-operator@sha256:fc92e3aa01fce77b3aefe62f3a282c5256a81285b3c8042e0955433cda7877ce

ibm-mqadvanced-server

9.4.0.16-r2

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server@sha256:b52d67b47b0946bbfb28f484bb9d46221551e0f701eeeece75beb85ab2738fd5

ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration

9.4.0.16-r2

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration@sha256:cea02beb40b33b841f77cf6b27491451b964f4ac67e24c271434df5f9980dcf9

ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev

9.4.0.16-r2

icr.io

icr.io/ibm-messaging/ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev@sha256:1e1346ab95b8001c5a2ecac1669ce1056b4a12ca511bd8cf20aef6302d167362

 

IBM MQ Container 9.4.4.0-r4 release details:

Image

Fix Version

Registry

Image Location

ibm-mqadvanced-server

9.4.4.0-r4

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server@sha256:cd232f0f3f211e2f3ccabfef1a63419c201a4e4b62bc1a057ddae72957a04f78

ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev

9.4.4.0-r4

icr.io

icr.io/ibm-messaging/ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev@sha256:7f0b57a5f708bdae77e022317dc0784c8d90df604c4c6af9b6894444e82a5c4a

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

10 Dec 2025: 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:
10 December 2025

UID

ibm17254313