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CVE-2024-25048

Status: AnalyzedHigh (7.5)—

IBM MQ Appliance 9.3 CD and LTS are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. A remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the server to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 283137.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

IBM — MQ Appliance

CWEs

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