The MQ Appliance messaging server must uniquely identify all network-connected endpoint devices before establishing any connection.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Without identifying devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. For distributed messaging servers and components, the decisions regarding the validation of identification claims may be made by services separate from the messaging server. In such situations, it is necessary to provide the identification decisions (as opposed to the actual identifiers) to the services that need to act on those decisions. Note: Following are the cipher specs available for MQ: https://ibm.biz/BdrJGp</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-89571r1_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Run the fix for each affected queue manager and each affected channel.
To access the MQ Appliance enter:
mqcli
runmqsc [queue name]