A vulnerability has been found in IBM Spectrum Scale up to 4.2.3.21/5.0.4.3 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component File System Component. The manipulation as part of a Argument leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

The Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.0 through 4.2.3.21 and 5.0.0.0 through 5.0.4.3 file system component is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in its kernel module that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition on the affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, a local attacker could invoke a subset of ioctls on the Spectrum Scale device with non-valid arguments. This could allow the attacker to crash the kernel. IBM X-Force ID: 179986.

The weakness was shared 05/19/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-4411 since 12/30/2019. Local access is required to approach this attack. Required for exploitation is a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/20/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

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

The entry 155435 is related to this item.

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• Network Attached Storage Software

Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Spectrum Scale

Version

• 4.2.3.0
• 4.2.3.1
• 4.2.3.2
• 4.2.3.3
• 4.2.3.4
• 4.2.3.5
• 4.2.3.6
• 4.2.3.7
• 4.2.3.8
• 4.2.3.9
• 4.2.3.10
• 4.2.3.11
• 4.2.3.12
• 4.2.3.13
• 4.2.3.14
• 4.2.3.15
• 4.2.3.16
• 4.2.3.17
• 4.2.3.18
• 4.2.3.19
• 4.2.3.20
• 4.2.3.21
• 5.0.4.0
• 5.0.4.1
• 5.0.4.2
• 5.0.4.3

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• commercial

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