IBM Spectrum Scale

CVE-2021-29740
HIGH 8.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.33 % · percentile 26 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
ibm
NVD status
Modified

Description

IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.0 through 5.0.5.6 and 5.1.0 through 5.1.0.3 system core component is affected by a format string security vulnerability. An attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of process memory, potentially escalating their system privileges and taking control over the entire system with root access. IBM X-Force ID: 201474.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-134 — Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.0/I:H/S:U/AC:L/A:H/PR:N/C:H/AV:L/UI:N/RL:O/E:U/RC:Cibm
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
IBM · Spectrum Scaleaffected 5.0.0 ; affected 5.1.0 ; affected 5.0.5.6 ; affected 5.1.0.3

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD