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CVE-2025-0985 (GCVE-0-2025-0985)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-28 16:21 – Updated: 2025-08-26 19:48
VLAI
Title
IBM MQ information disclosure
Summary
IBM MQ 9.3 LTS, 9.3 CD, 9.4 LTS, and 9.4 CD stores potentially sensitive information in environment variables that could be obtained by a local user.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-28 16:35 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-526 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM MQ Affected: 9.3 LTS, 9.3 CD, 9.4 LTS, 9.4 CD
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:mq:9.3.0:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:mq:9.3.0:*:*:*:continuous_delivery:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:mq:9.4.0:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:mq:9.4.0:*:*:*:continuous_delivery:*:*:*
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