CVE-2020-4869
Published: 11 January 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-4869 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Ibm Mq Appliance. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 32.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-26116
Vulnerability details
IBM MQ Appliance 9.2 CD and 9.2 LTS is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer overflow. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SNMP query to cause the appliance to reload. IBM X-Force ID: 190831.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.