CVE-2015-4974: IBM General Parallel File System

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) 3.5.x before 3.5.0.27 and 4.1.x before 4.1.1.2 and Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.x before 4.1.1.2 allow local users to obtain root privileges for command execution via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM General Parallel File System: version 3.5 only; version 3.5.0.0 only; version 3.5.0.2 only; version 3.5.0.3 only; version 3.5.0.4 only; version 3.5.0.6 only; …
• IBM Spectrum Scale: version 4.1.1.0 only; version 4.1.1.1 only

Published 2015-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.