CVE-2009-0505: IBM Txseries

High severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The CICS listener in IBM TXSeries for Multiplatforms 6.2 GA waits for a forcepurge acknowledgement from the CICS Application Server (CICSAS) after an eci response timeout, which might allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (forcepurge handling delay), or have unspecified other impact, via vectors involving slow or nonexistent acknowledgement.

Affected products

• IBM Txseries: version 6.2 only

Published 2009-02-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.