CVE-2018-1419: IBM WebSphere Mq

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 and 9.0, when configured to use a PAM module for authentication, could allow a user to cause a deadlock in the IBM MQ PAM code which could result in a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 138949.

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 2018-06-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.