CVE-2009-0905: IBM WebSphere Mq

Low severity, CVSS 1.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0 before 6.0.2.8 and 7.0 before 7.0.1.0 does not properly handle long group names, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging combinations of group names with the same initial substring.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Mq: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1.0 only; version 6.0.1.1 only; version 6.0.2.0 only; version 6.0.2.1 only; version 6.0.2.2 only; …

Published 2011-10-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.