IBM Websphere MQ MCAUSER Bypass

  • Published: 28 Mar 2008
  • Type: Websphere MQ MCAUSER Setting Bypass Vulnerability
  • Severity: High

Affected Products

Websphere MQ

CVE

CVE-2008-1130

The Websphere MQ service can be used to transfer messages between systems and applications. It is possible to lock down access to channels by setting an invalid MCAUSER. A method of bypassing this authorisation control has been discovered which would enable unauthorised access to be gained.

The vendor has released a fix for this vulnerability and download details are available within the advisory.