Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Appliance is affected by an unauthorised access vulnerability (CVE-2019-4621)

Summary

IBM MQ Appliance has addressed the following unauthorised access vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-4621
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM DataPower Appliance and IBM MQ Appliance have a default administrator account that is enabled if the IPMI LAN channel is enabled. A remote attacker could use this account to gain unauthorised access to the BMC.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168883 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM MQ Appliance 8
Apply fix pack 8.0.0.14, or later.

IBM MQ Appliance version 9.1 LTS

Apply fix pack 9.1.0.4, or later.

IBM MQ Appliance version 9.1 CD

Apply continuous delivery release 9.1.4, or later.

Workarounds and Mitigations

This issue only affects the IBM MQ Appliance when the IPMI interface is enabled.