CVE-2018-1431

High

Description

A vulnerability in GSKit affects IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.3, and 5.0.0 that could allow a local attacker to obtain control of the Spectrum Scale daemon and to access and modify files in the Spectrum Scale file system, and possibly to obtain administrator privileges on the node. IBM X-Force ID: 139240.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.4
Exploit probability—
ProductIbm Spectrum Scale
PublishedJun 13, 2018
First seenJun 13, 2018

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ibm spectrum_scale4.1.1.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.1.1.19, 4.2.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.2.0.4, 4.2.1.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.2.1.2, 4.2.2.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.2.2.3, 4.2.3.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.2.3.8, 5.0.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 5.0.0.2—
ibm general_parallel_file_system4.1.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.1.0.8—

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