CVE-2016-8971: IBM WebSphere Mq

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 could allow an authenticated user with queue manager permissions to cause a segmentation fault which would result in the box having to be rebooted to resume normal operations. IBM Reference #: 1998663.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Mq: version 8.0 only; version 8.0.0.1 only; version 8.0.0.2 only; version 8.0.0.3 only; version 8.0.0.4 only; version 8.0.0.5 only

Published 2017-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.