CVE-2015-2012

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Published 2016-02-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.0

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.0

Description

The MQXR service in WMQ Telemetry in IBM WebSphere MQ 7.1 before 7.1.0.7, 7.5 through 7.5.0.5, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.4 uses world-readable permissions for a cleartext file containing the SSL keystore password, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading this file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

40%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.1.0.3`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.1.0.4`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.1.0.5`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.1.0.6`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.5`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.5.0.2`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.5.0.3`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.5.0.4`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.5.0.5`
ibm	websphere_mq	`8.0`
ibm	websphere_mq	`8.0.0.1`
ibm	websphere_mq	`8.0.0.2`
ibm	websphere_mq	`8.0.0.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-200 CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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