CVE-2016-0263

CVE-2016-0263 is a privilege escalation and denial-of-service vulnerability affecting IBM Spectrum Scale versions 4.1 before 4.1.1.5 and 4.2 before 4.2.0.2, as well as General Parallel File System 3.5 before 3.5.0.30. A local attacker with low privileges can exploit this by crafting a malicious mmapplypolicy command. With a CVSS score of 7.0 (High), the vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.