Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU85920

Resource exhaustion in IBM MQ - CVE-2019-4378

Published: January 31, 2024

Vulnerability identifier: #VU85920

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-4378

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. An authenticated and authorized user can use a specially crafted PCF messages to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

IBM MQ
IBM Disconnected Log Collector

How to mitigate CVE-2019-4378

Install updates from vendor's website.

IBM Disconnected Log Collector - update to 1.8.3

External References

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