CVE-2016-0260

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in queue-manager agents in IBM WebSphere MQ 8.x before 8.0.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory consumption) by triggering many errors.

Affected products

IBM Corporation WebSphere MQ: 8.0, 8.0.0.1, 8.0.0.2, 8.0.0.3, 8.0.0.4

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21984564
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21984564

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