CVE-2024-51470 IBM MQ denial of service

What is CVE-2024-51470?

CVE-2024-51470 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM MQ, published on 18 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM MQ 9.1 LTS, 9.2 LTS, 9.3 LTS, 9.3 CD, 9.4 LTS, 9.4 CD, IBM MQ Appliance 9.3 LTS, 9.3 CD, 9.4 LTS, and IBM MQ for HPE NonStop 8.1.0 through 8.1.0.25 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial-of-service due to messages with improperly set values.

Weakness: CWE-754

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-51470?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Ibm Mq Appliance, Ibm Mq for Hpe Nonstop.

How do I fix CVE-2024-51470?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-51470 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-2024-51470 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-51470 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM MQ

• CVE-2025-0975 IBM MQ code execution High 8.8
• CVE-2017-1318 Command injection in MQ Appliance High 8.8
• CVE-2019-4620 Security feature bypass in MQ Appliance High 8.4
• CVE-2021-38967 Code injection in MQ Appliance High 8.2
• CVE-2024-25048 IBM MQ code execution High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2663-jm96-pp8f.