# CVE-2025-23225: IBM MQ denial of service

> An authenticated user can cause a denial of service in IBM MQ by sending invalid headers to the queue.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pmc9-q57x-xf3v

## What is CVE-2025-23225?

CVE-2025-23225 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM MQ, published on 28 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM MQ 9.3 LTS, 9.3 CD, 9.4 LTS, and 9.4 CD could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service due to the improper handling of invalid headers sent to the queue.

Weakness: CWE-230 (Improper Handling of Missing Values)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23225?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Mq Appliance.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-23225?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-23225 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-23225 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23225 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM MQ

- [CVE-2025-0975](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0975/): IBM MQ code execution (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2017-1318](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1318/): Command injection in MQ Appliance (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2019-4620](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-4620/): Security feature bypass in MQ Appliance (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2021-38967](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38967/): Code injection in MQ Appliance (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2024-25048](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25048/): IBM MQ code execution (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-23225 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-23225 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM MQ, published on 28 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23225 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM MQ. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23225/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23225/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23225
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23225
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-23225

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23225/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.