PT-2015-1311

CVE-2015-0198

Published

2015-03-23

Updated

2016-12-31

Description by

CVSS 2.0

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) versions 3.4 before 3.4.0.32 IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) versions 3.5 before 3.5.0.24 IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) versions 4.1 before 4.1.0.7

Description The issue is related to insufficient authentication of network packets when the cipherList configuration parameter is set. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute applications with administrator privileges.

Recommendations For IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) versions 3.4 before 3.4.0.32, update to version 3.4.0.32 or later. For IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) versions 3.5 before 3.5.0.24, update to version 3.5.0.24 or later. For IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) versions 4.1 before 4.1.0.7, update to version 4.1.0.7 or later.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Felix Wilhelm

Florian Grunow

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-287: Improper Authentication

Related identifiers

CVE-2015-0198