CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-12670

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

IBM MQ contains a vulnerability that allows an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service through a specially crafted message that triggers excessive memory operations during character set conversion.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with valid credentials can make the queue manager unavailable and disrupt message processing in the organization.

Recommendation

Update IBM MQ to the latest patched version and restrict authenticated user privileges to the minimum necessary.

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Original NVD description (English source)

IBM MQ could allow an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service through a specially crafted message that triggers excessive memory operations during character set conversion.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS