National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0905
Original release date:10/30/2011
Last revised:02/29/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0 before 6.0.2.8 and 7.0 before 7.0.1.0 does not properly handle long group names, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging combinations of group names with the same initial substring.
Description
Per: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51042
'Note: This vulnerability only affects platforms where group names are limited to 12 characters in length.IB'
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.1
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: XF
Name: websphere-mq-group-weak-security(51042)
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ37102
