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A vulnerability was found in IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2/5.0. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation as part of Request leads to command injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2019-4715. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2/5.0 (Network Attached Storage Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation as part of a Request leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2 and 5.0 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 172093.

The weakness was published 12/11/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-4715 since 01/03/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 03/10/2024). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1202.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entry is available at VDB-147019. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Network Attached Storage Software

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• IBM

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• Spectrum Scale

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• 4.2
• 5.0

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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