Denial of service in IBM MQ - CVE-2018-1883

 

Denial of service in IBM MQ - CVE-2018-1883

Published: December 5, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16281
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1883
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: IBM Corporation
Affected software:
IBM MQ

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to unspecified flaw. A remote attacker can execute a denial of service attack preventing users from logging into the MQ Console REST API.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-1883

The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 9.1.0.1, 9.1.1.

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