CVE-2010-2637: IBM WebSphere Mq

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0 before 6.0.2.9 and 7.0 before 7.0.1.1 does not encrypt the username and password in the security parameters field, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network traffic from a .NET client application.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Mq: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.0.0 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; …

Published 2010-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.