CVE-2016-0361: IBM General Parallel File System

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) 3.5 before 3.5.0.29 efix 6 and 4.1.1 before 4.1.1.4 efix 9, when the Spectrum Scale GUI is used with DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows, allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by discovering ADMIN passwords.

Affected products

• IBM General Parallel File System: version 3.5 only; version 3.5.0.3 only; version 3.5.0.7 only; version 3.5.0.9 only; version 3.5.0.11 only; version 3.5.0.16 only; …

Published 2016-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.