IBM General Parallel File System/Spectrum Scale up to 4.1.1.1 command injection

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in IBM General Parallel File System and Spectrum Scale. The impacted element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes command injection. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2015-4974. The attack is restricted to local execution. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in IBM General Parallel File System and Spectrum Scale (Network Attached Storage Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) 3.5.x before 3.5.0.27 and 4.1.x before 4.1.1.2 and Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.x before 4.1.1.2 allow local users to obtain root privileges for command execution via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was disclosed 10/26/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared at www-01.ibm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-4974 since 06/24/2015. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 20048 (IBM DB2 LUW Multiple Vulnerabilities (swg21972152)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 77025†). The entries VDB-78878 and VDB-80023 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Network Attached Storage Software

Vendor

• IBM

Name

• General Parallel File System
• Spectrum Scale

Version

• 3.5
• 3.5.0.0
• 3.5.0.2
• 3.5.0.3
• 3.5.0.4
• 3.5.0.6
• 3.5.0.7
• 3.5.0.8
• 3.5.0.9
• 3.5.0.10
• 3.5.0.11
• 3.5.0.12
• 3.5.0.13
• 3.5.0.14
• 3.5.0.15
• 3.5.0.16
• 3.5.0.17
• 3.5.0.18
• 3.5.0.19
• 3.5.0.20
• 3.5.0.21
• 3.5.0.22
• 3.5.0.23
• 3.5.0.24
• 3.5.0.25
• 3.5.0.26
• 4.1.1.0
• 4.1.1.1

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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