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CVE-2018-1998

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-03-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0.0.0 through 9.1.1 could allow a local user to inject code that could be executed with root privileges. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-1792. IBM X-ForceID: 154887.

Affected products

• IBM Corporation WebSphere MQ: from 8.0.0.0 through 8.0.0.10; from 9.0.0.0 through 9.0.0.5; from 9.1.0.0 through 9.1.0.1

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154887
• https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10870488
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154887
• https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10870488

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