IBM MQ 9.3/9.4 Console Code Exec via Escape Char (CVE-2025-0975)
CVE-2025-0975 Published on February 28, 2025
IBM MQ code execution
IBM MQ 9.3 LTS, 9.3 CD, 9.4 LTS, and 9.4 CD console could allow an authenticated user to execute code due to improper neutralization of escape characters.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-0975 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences
The software receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as escape, meta, or control character sequences when they are sent to a downstream component. As data is parsed, an injected/absent/malformed delimiter may cause the process to take unexpected actions.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-0975
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Affected Versions
IBM MQ Version 9.3 LTS, 9.3 CD, 9.4 LTS, 9.4 CD is affected by CVE-2025-0975Exploit Probability
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