01 Record
CVE-2019-4620
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0 and 9.0 LTS could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by improper validation of environment variables. IBM X-Force ID: 168863.
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: ibm
CNA base score8.4 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/S:U/A:H/I:H/AC:L/AV:L/C:H/UI:N/PR:N/RC:C/E:U/RL:O
02 Description
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0 and 9.0 LTS could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by improper validation of environment variables. IBM X-Force ID: 168863.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 28.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-01-28 18:30Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 03:18Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-01-03
- Assigning CNA
- ibm
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 8.4)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/S:U/A:H/I:H/AC:L/AV:L/C:H/UI:N/PR:N/RC:C/E:U/RL:O
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 16b60c06d7e624462495262ed2c99b037010f23168744362bf6aa07e3be6e061
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
IBMMQ Appliance8.0.0.3, 8.0.0.4, 8.0.0.5, 8.0.0.6, 8.0.0.0, 8.0.0.10, 8.0.0.11, 9.1.0.1, 9.1.1, 8.0.0.1, 8.0.0.7, 8.0.0.9, 8.0.0.12, 9.1.0.2, 9.1.2, 9.1.0.3, 9.1.3, 9.1, 8.0.0.13—
06 References
- www.ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1125891
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comibm-mq-cve20194620-sec-bypass (168863)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168863