CVE-2012-3294: IBM WebSphere Mq

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Web Gateway component in IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition 7.0.4 and earlier, and WebSphere MQ - Managed File Transfer 7.5, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that (1) add user accounts via the /wmqfteconsole/Filespaces URI, (2) modify permissions via the /wmqfteconsole/FileSpacePermisssions URI, or (3) add MQ Message Descriptor (MQMD) user accounts via the /wmqfteconsole/UploadUsers URI.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Mq: up to and including 7.0.4; version 7.0 only; version 7.0.0.1 only; version 7.0.1.0 only; version 7.0.2.0 only; version 7.0.2.2 only; …
• IBM WebSphere Mq Managed File Transfer: version 7.5 only

Published 2012-08-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.