IBM MQ 9.3/9.4 LTS/CD Exposes Sensitive Data in Env Vars – Local User
CVE-2025-0985 Published on February 28, 2025

IBM MQ information disclosure
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.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-0985 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 have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
NONE

Weakness Type

Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Environmental Variables

Environmental variables may contain sensitive information about a remote server.


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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-2025-0985

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.06%
Percentile
19.94%

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