CVE-2012-3317: IBM WebSphere Message Broker

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 before 6.1.0.11, 7.0 before 7.0.0.5, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.2 has incorrect ownership of certain uninstaller Java Runtime Environment (JRE) files, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to uid 501 or gid 300.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Message Broker: version 6.1 only; version 6.1.0.1 only; version 6.1.0.2 only; version 6.1.0.3 only; version 6.1.0.4 only; version 6.1.0.5 only; …

Published 2012-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.