CVE-2014-4793

medium
Published 2014-10-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
6.5

Description

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.x before 8.0.0.1 does not properly enforce CHLAUTH rules for blocking client connections in certain circumstances related to the CONNAUTH attribute, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended queue-manager access restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21685526

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmwebsphere_mq8.0.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.