CVE-2018-1431

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17

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 products

IBM General Parallel File System: from 4.1.0.0 through 4.1.0.8
IBM Spectrum Scale: from 4.1.1.0 through 4.1.1.19; from 4.2.0.0 through 4.2.0.4; from 4.2.1.0 through 4.2.1.2; from 4.2.2.0 through 4.2.2.3; from 4.2.3.0 through 4.2.3.8; from 5.0.0.0 through 5.0.0.2

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1012049
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105546
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139240
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1012049
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105546
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139240

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