CVE-2018-1431

published 2018-06-13

CVE-2018-1431: 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…

Priority P3 37 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

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.

Affected

13 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ibm	general_parallel_file_system	4.1.0.0 – 4.1.0.8	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	4.1.1.0 – 4.1.1.19	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	4.2.0.0 – 4.2.0.4	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	4.2.1.0 – 4.2.1.2	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	4.2.2.0 – 4.2.2.3	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	4.2.3.0 – 4.2.3.8	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	5.0.0.0 – 5.0.0.2	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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