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CVE-2017-1786
IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 through 8.0.0.8 and 9.0 through 9.0.4 under special circumstances could allow an authenticated user to consume all…
Medium5.3EPSS 1.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 through 8.0.0.8 and 9.0 through 9.0.4 under special circumstances could allow an authenticated user to consume all resources due to a memory leak resulting in service loss. IBM X-Force ID: 136975.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
- Denial of Service
- CWE-772 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-772 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (2)
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22013023 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ibm-websphere-cve20171786-dos(136975) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-1786)Record last updated .