A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in IBM MQ, MQ Appliance and MQ for HPE NonStop 8.0/9.1/9.1 LTS. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a release of resource vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-772. The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

IBM MQ, IBM MQ Appliance, IBM MQ for HPE NonStop 8.0, 9.1 CD, and 9.1 LTS could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service due to a memory leak caused by an error creating a dynamic queue. IBM X-Force ID: 179080.

The weakness was released 07/28/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at ibm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-4375 since 12/30/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/29/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 159087 and 159085.

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• IBM

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• MQ
• MQ Appliance
• MQ for HPE NonStop

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• 8.0
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