CVE-2016-5879: IBM Mq Appliance Firmware

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MQCLI on IBM MQ Appliance M2000 and M2001 devices allows local users to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted (1) Disaster Recovery or (2) High Availability command.

Affected products

• IBM Mq Appliance Firmware: version 8.0 only

Published 2016-09-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.