CVE-2018-1431

HIGH

7.4

CVSS Score

Published: June 13, 2018 at 02:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:51 AM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorSpectrum ScaleGeneral Parallel File System

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Severity

HIGH7.4

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

General Parallel File System · IBM

95%

4.1.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.1.0.8

Spectrum Scale · IBM

95%

4.1.1.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.1.1.194.2.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.2.0.44.2.1.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.2.1.24.2.2.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.2.2.34.2.3.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.2.3.85.0.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 5.0.0.24.1.1 4.2.0 4.2.1 4.2.2 4.2.3 5.0.0