CVE-2016-8986: IBM WebSphere Mq

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 could allow an authenticated user with access to the queue manager to bring down MQ channels using specially crafted HTTP requests. IBM Reference #: 1998648.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Mq: version 8.0 only; version 8.0.0.0 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; …

Published 2017-02-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.