CVE-2012-3294

medium

Published 2012-08-17 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Web Gateway component in IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition 7.0.4 and earlier, and WebSphere MQ - Managed File Transfer 7.5, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that (1) add user accounts via the /wmqfteconsole/Filespaces URI, (2) modify permissions via the /wmqfteconsole/FileSpacePermisssions URI, or (3) add MQ Message Descriptor (MQMD) user accounts via the /wmqfteconsole/UploadUsers URI.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-20477 webapps windows verified

Nir Valtman · 2012-08-13

IBM Websphere MQ File Transfer Edition Web Gateway - Cross-Site Request Forgery

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	websphere_mq	`{"endIncluding":"7.0.4"}`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.0`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.0.0.1`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.0.1.0`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.0.2.0`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.0.2.2`
ibm	websphere_mq	`7.0.4.0`
ibm	websphere_mq_managed_file_transfer	`7.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.