Security Bulletin: A vulnerability has been identified in IBM Elastic Storage System where an attacker could cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-4382)

Security Bulletin

Summary

A security vulnerability has been identified in all levels of IBM Elastic Storage System that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service. A fix for this vulnerability is available.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2020-4382
DESCRIPTION: IBM Spectrum Scale for IBM Elastic Storage Server 5.3.0 through 5.3.5 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service during deployment or upgrade pertaining to xcat services. IBM X-Force ID: 179163.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/179163 for the current score.
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

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Elastic Storage System	6.0.0 - 6.0.1.2

Remediation/Fixes

IBM recommends that you fix this vulnerability by upgrading affected versions of IBM Elastic Storage System 3000 and 5000 to the following code levels or higher:

V6.1.0.0 or V6.0.2.0 or later.

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=6.0.0&platform=All&function=all

And then enable security on these system using the security tool provided in these release by running below steps :

- To enable security, from the container, run the command:

# essrun -N <node_name> security enable

where <node_name> is the node on which security needs to be enabled.

- One can verify it has been enabled by running the command,

# essrun -N <node_name> security verify.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

19 Mar 2021: Initial Publication

*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

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability has been identified in IBM Elastic Storage System where an attacker could cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-4382)