CVE-2018-1993 Information disclosure in Spectrum Scale

What is CVE-2018-1993?

CVE-2018-1993 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Scale, published on 8 Jan 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) 4.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, and 5.0.0 where the use of Local Read Only Cache (LROC) is enabled may caused read operation on a file to return data from a different file. IBM X-Force ID: 154440.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1993?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Scale.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1993?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1993 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-1993 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1993 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Spectrum Scale

• CVE-2019-4715 Command injection in Spectrum Scale High 8.8
• CVE-2021-29740 Other in Spectrum Scale High 8.4
• CVE-2019-4558 Privilege escalation in Spectrum Scale High 8.1
• CVE-2020-4217 Denial of service in Spectrum Scale High 7.5
• CVE-2020-4273 Command injection in Spectrum Scale High 7.4

All Ibm Spectrum Scale vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-c57r-54fv-vmmq.