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Security Bulletin: The Elastic Storage Server and the GPFS Storage Server are affected by vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Scale (CVE-2016-0263, CVE2016-0361)

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Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/691269
691269

Security Bulletin


Summary

There are vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Scale packaged with IBM Spectrum Scale RAID for the Elastic Storage Server and the GPFS Storage Server.

Vulnerability Details


CVEID: CVE-2016-0263
DESCRIPTION: IBM General Parallel File System could allow a local user under special circumstances to escalate their privileges or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110661 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-0361
DESCRIPTION: IBM Spectrum Scale, with the Spectrum Scale GUI installed, could allow a remote unprivileged user to obtain sensitive information including ADMIN passwords used to access other components of the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111931 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

The Elastic Storage Server versions 4.0, 3.5, 3.0 and 2.5

The GPFS Storage Server versions 2.0

Remediation/Fixes

For the Elastic Storage Server 4.0.0 thru 4.0.1, upgrade to 4.0.2 available at
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%2Bdefined%2Bstorage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Spectrum+Scale+RAID&release=4.2.0&platform=All&function=all

Note: CVE-2016-0361 only impacts ESS 4.0.0 and 4.0.1

For the Elastic Storage Server 3.5.0 thru 3.5.3, upgrade to 3.5.4 available at
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%2Bdefined%2Bstorage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Spectrum+Scale+RAID&release=4.1.1&platform=All&function=all

For the Elastic Storage Server 3.0.0 thru 3.0.5, upgrade to 3.5.4 available at
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%2Bdefined%2Bstorage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Spectrum+Scale+RAID&release=4.1.1&platform=All&function=all

For the Elastic Storage Server 2.5.0 thru 2.5.5 and the GPFS Storage Server 2.0.0 thru 2.0.7, contact IBM Service referencing APAR IV80518. See http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/

In all cases, see the release note for details on installation.

For the GPFS Storage Server 2.5, contact Lenovo at http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/servers/high-density/gpfs-storage/

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

5 May 2016: Original version published

*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.

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Document Information

Modified date:
08 March 2021

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ssg1S1005782

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