CVE-2018-1431: IBM General Parallel File System

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in GSKit affects IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.3, and 5.0.0 that could allow a local attacker to obtain control of the Spectrum Scale daemon and to access and modify files in the Spectrum Scale file system, and possibly to obtain administrator privileges on the node. IBM X-Force ID: 139240.

Affected products

• IBM General Parallel File System: from 4.1.0.0, up to and including 4.1.0.8
• IBM Spectrum Scale: from 4.1.1.0, up to and including 4.1.1.19; from 4.2.0.0, up to and including 4.2.0.4; from 4.2.1.0, up to and including 4.2.1.2; from 4.2.2.0, up to and including 4.2.2.3; from 4.2.3.0, up to and including 4.2.3.8; from 5.0.0.0, up to and including 5.0.0.2

Published 2018-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.