🛡️ CVE-2025-36100 — mq

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-36100 is classified as CWE-260: Password in Configuration File. The product stores a password in a configuration file that might be accessible to actors who do not know the password.

Affected software

CVE-2025-36100 is recorded against 1 package.

• mq (from 9.4.0.0 up to 9.4.3.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 September 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.ibm.com

Other advisories for this package

mq has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-1713 (5.0 Medium, published 3 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-36128 (7.5 High, published 16 Oct 2025)
• CVE-2025-0985 (5.5 Medium, published 28 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2024-54175 (5.5 Medium, published 28 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2024-52898 (6.2 Medium, published 14 Jan 2025)
• CVE-2024-52897 (6.2 Medium, published 19 Dec 2024)
• CVE-2024-52896 (6.2 Medium, published 19 Dec 2024)
• CVE-2024-35156 (6.5 Medium, published 28 Jun 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-260: Password in Configuration File) in other software:

• CVE-2023-53739 (published 9 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2023-53770 (7.5 High, published 9 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-33119 (6.5 Medium, published 12 Nov 2025)
• CVE-2025-36002 (5.5 Medium, published 16 Oct 2025)
• CVE-2025-57754 (9.8 Critical, published 21 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2025-51540 (5.3 Medium, published 19 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2025-6513 (9.3 Critical, published 23 Jun 2025)
• CVE-2025-25022 (9.6 Critical, published 3 Jun 2025)

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