CVE-2018-1783 Denial of service in n/a
An authenticated unprivileged user can terminate GPFS processes, causing denial of service for data access on IBM Spectrum Scale nodes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-1783?
CVE-2018-1783 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Scale, published on 5 Oct 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IBM GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.0, 4.1.1.20, 4.2.0.0, 4.2.3.10, 5.0.0 and 5.0.1.2) command line utility allows an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to forcefully terminate GPFS and deny access to data available through GPFS. IBM X-Force ID: 148806.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1783?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Spectrum Scale.
How do I fix CVE-2018-1783?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1783 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-1783 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1783 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Spectrum Scale
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fp22-w9p6-q7h4.