CVE-2018-1783 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in IBM GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale versions 4.1.1.0 through 5.0.1.2). An authenticated, unprivileged user with local access to a GPFS node can exploit a command-line utility to forcefully terminate the GPFS service, thereby denying access to data. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating low attack complexity and local access requirements, leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.1.0.0, <= 4.1.1.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.2.0.0, <= 4.2.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.0.0.0, <= 5.0.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.