CVE-2017-1304: IBM Elastic Storage Server

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM has identified a vulnerability with IBM Spectrum Scale/GPFS utilized on the Elastic Storage Server (ESS)/GPFS Storage Server (GSS) during testing of an unsupported configuration, where users applications are running on an active ESS I/O server node and utilize direct I/O to perform a read or a write to a Spectrum Scale file. This vulnerability may result in the use of an incorrect memory address, leading to a Spectrum Scale/GPFS daemon failure with a Signal 11, and possibly leading to denial of service or undetected data corruption. IBM X-Force ID: 125458.

Affected products

• IBM Elastic Storage Server: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.5.0 only; version 2.5.5 only; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.5 only; version 3.5.0 only; …

Published 2017-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.