CVE-2017-1117 Denial of service in MQ

What is CVE-2017-1117?

CVE-2017-1117 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Websphere Mq, published on 21 Jun 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 and 9.0 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service to the MQXR channel when trace is enabled. IBM X-Force ID: 121155.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1117?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Websphere Mq.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1117?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-1117 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-1117 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1117 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Websphere Mq

• CVE-2009-0896 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2007-6044 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2018-1998 Command injection in MQ High 8.8
• CVE-2018-1792 Code injection in MQ High 8.8
• CVE-2009-3160 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.8

All Ibm Websphere Mq vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f89q-v6m4-88mh.