CVE-2021-29671 Security feature bypass in Spectrum Scale

What is CVE-2021-29671?

CVE-2021-29671 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Scale, published on 9 Apr 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.0.1 could allow a local attacker to bypass the filesystem audit logging mechanism when file audit logging is enabled. IBM X-Force ID: 199478.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-29671?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Scale.

How do I fix CVE-2021-29671?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-29671 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-29671 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-29671 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
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Also known as GHSA-8pfw-xwjm-7gj9.