CVE-2016-0263: IBM General Parallel File System Storage Server

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1 before 4.1.1.5 and 4.2 before 4.2.0.2 and General Parallel File System 3.5 before 3.5.0.30 allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a crafted mmapplypolicy command.

Affected products

• IBM General Parallel File System Storage Server: version 3.5.0.1 only; version 3.5.0.2 only; version 3.5.0.3 only; version 3.5.0.4 only; version 3.5.0.5 only; version 3.5.0.6 only; …
• IBM Spectrum Scale: version 4.1.1.1 only; version 4.1.1.2 only; version 4.1.1.3 only; version 4.1.1.4 only; version 4.2.0.0 only; version 4.2.0.1 only

Published 2016-06-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.