CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-0985

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable

Published: Feb 28, 2025 | Modified: Jun 20, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0985
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/526.html

IBM MQ 9.3 LTS, 9.3 CD, 9.4 LTS, and 9.4 CD

stores potentially sensitive information in environment variables that could be obtained by a local user.

Weakness

The product uses an environment variable to store unencrypted sensitive information.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Mq	Ibm	9.3.0 (including)	9.3.0 (including)
Mq	Ibm	9.4.0 (including)	9.4.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7184453

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