CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2018-1419 — Ibm Websphere Mq security vulnerability
Medium
CVSS 5.3
IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 and 9.0, when configured to use a PAM module for authentication, could allow a user to cause a deadlock in the IBM MQ PAM code which could result in a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 138949.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.3 (3.0)
- Published
- 2018-06-15
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
Affected products
- ibm / websphere_mq / 8.0
- ibm / websphere_mq / 8.0.0.1
- ibm / websphere_mq / 8.0.0.2
- ibm / websphere_mq / 8.0.0.3
- ibm / websphere_mq / 8.0.0.4
- ibm / websphere_mq / 8.0.0.5
Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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