CVE-2014-4793 (GCVE-0-2014-4793)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-10-02 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:27
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Summary
IBM WebSphere MQ 8.x before 8.0.0.1 does not properly enforce CHLAUTH rules for blocking client connections in certain circumstances related to the CONNAUTH attribute, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended queue-manager access restrictions via unspecified vectors.
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2014-10-01 00:00
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