Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-27365

Memory Safety in Ibm Supplied Mq Advanced Container Images 9.2.0.1 … 9.4.2.0

Published
01 May 2025
Modified
17 June 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0034 27th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-27365 is a medium-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Ibm Supplied Mq Advanced Container Images. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 27th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-16 (Memory Protection) and AC-3 (Access Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

IBM MQ Operator LTS 2.0.0 through 2.0.29, MQ Operator CD 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0 through 3.1.3, 3.3.0, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.5.0, 3.5.1, and MQ Operator SC2 3.2.0 through 3.2.10 Client connecting to a MQ Queue Manager can cause a SIGSEGV in the…

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AMQRMPPA channel process terminating it.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-3631Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2025-1916Shared CWE-416
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CVE-2024-56554Shared CWE-416
CVE-2026-9114Shared CWE-416
CVE-2023-35693Shared CWE-416
CVE-2023-42104Shared CWE-416
CVE-2021-21206Shared CWE-416
CVE-2024-47415Shared CWE-416
CVE-2023-26589Shared CWE-416

Affected Assets

ibm
mq operator
3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.3.0, 3.4.0, 3.4.1 · 2.0.0 — 2.0.29 · 2.2.0 — 2.2.2 · 2.3.0 — 2.3.3
ibm
supplied mq advanced container images
9.2.0.1, 9.2.0.2, 9.2.0.4, 9.2.0.5, 9.2.0.6

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-16 Memory Protection
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 3 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.4.3

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly mitigates the CWE-416 use-after-free in AMQRMPPA by enforcing memory protections that prevent invalid access after deallocation during client channel processing.

prevent

Enforces access decisions on MQ Queue Manager connections so only authorized and properly authenticated clients can initiate channel sessions that could trigger the SIGSEGV.

prevent

Requires validation of client-supplied data on MQ channel connections, reducing the chance that malformed input reaches the vulnerable AMQRMPPA memory-handling code.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly incorporate memory-safety tooling and reviews that prevent most use-after-free defects.

ID.RA-01 partial match
prevents

Vulnerability identification processes can discover use-after-free issues via scanning or analysis but do not prevent their introduction.

PR.PS-02 partial match
prevents

Routine patching removes known use-after-free instances after they have been introduced in released software.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Security testing in development can detect use-after-free bugs before release.

prevents

Secure SDLC mandates memory-safety practices that reduce use-after-free defects.

prevents

Application security requirements can specify memory-management rules that mitigate use-after-free.

prevents

Secure architecture principles include memory-safety design choices that limit use-after-free exposure.

prevents

Secure coding standards directly prescribe avoidance of use-after-free patterns.

prevents

Change-management processes help ensure memory-safety fixes are deployed consistently.

References