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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-2025-61725
DESCRIPTION:   The ParseAddress function constructs domain-literal address components through repeated string concatenation. When parsing large domain-literal components, this can cause excessive CPU consumption.
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-2025-45582
DESCRIPTION:   GNU Tar through 1.35 allows file overwrite via directory traversal in crafted TAR archives, with a certain two-step process. First, the victim must extract an archive that contains a ../ symlink to a critical directory. Second, the victim must extract an archive that contains a critical file, specified via a relative pathname that begins with the symlink name and ends with that critical file's name. Here, the extraction follows the symlink and overwrites the critical file. This bypasses the protection mechanism of "Member name contains '..'" that would occur for a single TAR archive that attempted to specify the critical file via a ../ approach. For example, the first archive can contain "x - ../../../../../home/victim/.ssh" and the second archive can contain x/authorized_keys. This can affect server applications that automatically extract any number of user-supplied TAR archives, and were relying on the blocking of traversal. This can also affect software installation processes in which "tar xf" is run more than once (e.g., when installing a package can automatically install two dependencies that are set up as untrusted tarballs instead of official packages). NOTE: the official GNU Tar manual has an otherwise-empty directory for each "tar xf" in its Security Rules of Thumb; however, third-party advice leads users to run "tar xf" more than once into the same directory.
CWE:   CWE-24: Path Traversal: '../filedir'
CVSS Source:   cve@mitre.org
CVSS Base score:   4.1
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-12755
DESCRIPTION:   IBM MQ Container could allow an unauthorized user to inject data into log messages due to improper neutralization of special elements when written to log files.
CWE:   CWE-117: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
CVSS Source:   IBM
CVSS Base score:   4
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-58183
DESCRIPTION:   tar.Reader does not set a maximum size on the number of sparse region data blocks in GNU tar pax 1.0 sparse files. A maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions can cause a Reader to read an unbounded amount of data from the archive into memory. When reading from a compressed source, a small compressed input can result in large allocations.
CVSS Source:   CISA ADP
CVSS Base score:   4.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-9714
DESCRIPTION:   Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.
CWE:   CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
CVSS Source:   NVD
CVSS Base score:   5.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2025-58186
DESCRIPTION:   Despite HTTP headers having a default limit of 1MB, the number of cookies that can be parsed does not have a limit. By sending a lot of very small cookies such as "a=;", an attacker can make an HTTP server allocate a large amount of structs, causing large memory consumption.
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)

Affected Products and Versions

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

SC2: v3.2.0 - v3.2.21

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, v3.8.0, v3.8.1

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, 9.4.0.16-r2, 9.4.0.17-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-r4, 9.4.4.1-r1

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 v3.9.0 CD release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced 9.4.5.0-r1 container image. 
  • IBM MQ Operator v3.2.22 SC2 release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced 9.4.0.17-r2 container image.
  • IBM MQ Container 9.4.5.0-r1 release.

IBM strongly recommends applying the latest container images. 

IBM MQ Operator v3.9.0 CD release details:

Image

Fix Version

Registry

Image Location

ibm-mq-operator

v3.9.0

icr.io

icr.io/cpopen/ibm-mq-operator@sha256:68b733aecb0a3a447d4853a2394f06655f4cacc59401e3e6ddf340de2017523e

ibm-mqadvanced-server

9.4.5.0-r1

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server@sha256:62c2d36b8cd37436786a79981b496d0e8562bcd20fc2f05cc497080e2e0780dc

ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration

9.4.5.0-r1

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration@sha256:2b5150b4c2f35b68a2248663ed49ca771bb3d53ede5ee0c7d1576d3a3944d888

ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev

9.4.5.0-r1

icr.io

icr.io/ibm-messaging/ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev@sha256:50c635e55660d97edd6327620038fb562fcf05219018e3a4ee7e96737974b572


IBM MQ Operator v3.2.22 SC2 release details:

Image

Fix Version

Registry

Image Location

ibm-mq-operator

v3.2.22

icr.io

icr.io/cpopen/ibm-mq-operator@sha256:5704a05a74af6afa8c7a208534a21922d4b5ec63d2df11e43b7571c65d4b1471

ibm-mqadvanced-server

9.4.0.17-r2

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server@sha256:70c0cf98eaae1e6fd72bd688c48f85bcdcdffabb1cb8ca59f8720b8650e4786f

ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration

9.4.0.17-r2

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration@sha256:1d408aeb0b06bab6d2cffe769afdcc4cab25f2beaeb4d0fda988eca400a2c072

ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev

9.4.0.17-r2

icr.io

icr.io/ibm-messaging/ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev@sha256:5989664bbf8f19cb99c354b7fd1b10bc40e304708272cfd3a5e5bf40fc9970be

 

IBM MQ Container 9.4.5.0-r1 release details:

Image

Fix Version

Registry

Image Location

ibm-mqadvanced-server

9.4.5.0-r1

cp.icr.io

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server@sha256:62c2d36b8cd37436786a79981b496d0e8562bcd20fc2f05cc497080e2e0780dc

ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev

9.4.5.0-r1

icr.io

icr.io/ibm-messaging/ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev@sha256:50c635e55660d97edd6327620038fb562fcf05219018e3a4ee7e96737974b572

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

09 Feb 2026: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
09 February 2026

Initial Publish date:
09 February 2026

UID

ibm17260087