Security restrictions bypass in IBM MQ - CVE-2017-1341

 

Security restrictions bypass in IBM MQ - CVE-2017-1341

Published: December 11, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9610
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1341
CWE-ID: CWE-284
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 attacker to bypass security restrictions and access arbitrary file on the target system.

The weakness exists due to MQOPEN call might succeed when it should have failed. A remote attacker can use generic profile authority matching for remotely defined MQ object and access the object which he is denied to access.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-1341

Update to version 8.0.0.8, 9.0.0.2 or 9.0.4.

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