CVE-2022-40607 IBM Spectrum Scale directory traversal

What is CVE-2022-40607?

CVE-2022-40607 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Scale, published on 19 Dec 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1 could allow users with permissions to create pod, persistent volume and persistent volume claim to access files and directories outside of the volume, including on the host filesystem. IBM X-Force ID: 235740.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-40607?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Scale.

How do I fix CVE-2022-40607?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-40607 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2022-40607 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40607 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-76w5-p7qg-p8gv.