CVE-2018-1822 describes a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the GUI of IBM FlashSystem 840 and 900 products. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw to remotely change the superuser password, gaining full administrative control or causing a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:flashsystem_900_firmware:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ibm:flashsystem_840_firmware:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.