Description
IBM MQ could allow an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a specially crafted asynchronous consume request that crashes the queue manager agent process.
Affected products
ibm: mq operator; ibm: supplied mq advanced container images
References1
- www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7292667 Vendor Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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6.5
MEDIUM
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 18 · as of 10 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-502
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