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Security Bulletin: The Elastic Storage Server is affected by a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale (CVE-2018-1783)

Security Bulletin


Summary

The Elastic Storage Server is affected by a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale which could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to forcefully terminate GPFS and deny access to data available through GPFS (CVE-2018-1783).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1783
DESCRIPTION: IBM GPFS command line utility allows an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to forcefully terminate GPFS and deny access to data available through GPFS.
CVSS Base Score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148806 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

The Elastic Storage Server 5.3  thru 5.3.1.1
The Elastic Storage Server 5.0.0  thru 5.2.3
The Elastic Storage Server 4.5.0 thru 4.6.0
The Elastic Storage Server 4.0.0 thru 4.0.6

The Elastic Storage Server 3.5.0 thru 3.5.6
The Elastic Storage Server 3.0.0 thru 3.0.5
The  Elastic Storage Server 2.5.0 thru 2.5.5

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Elastic Storage Server V5.0.0. thru 5.3.1.1, apply V5.3.2 available from FixCentral at:

https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=5.3.0&platform=Linux+64-bit,pSeries&function=all

For IBM Elastic Storage Server V5.0.0. thru 5.2.3, apply V5.2.4  available from FixCentral at:

https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=5.2.0&platform=Linux+64-bit,pSeries&function=all

Notes:
If you are unable to upgrade to ESS 5.3.2 or 5.2.4, please contact IBM Service to obtain an efix:

- For IBM Elastic Storage Server 5.3 - 5.3.1.1, reference APAR IJ08220
- For IBM Elastic Storage Server 5.0 - 5.2.3, reference APAR IJ08214
- For IBM Elastic Storage Server 4.0.0 - 4.6.0, reference APAR IJ08214

-For IBM Elastic Storage Server 2.5.0 thru 3.5.6, reference APAR IJ08213

 

To contact IBM Service, see http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

Internal Use Only

PR ID : 121622

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 November 2018

UID

ibm10740139

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