CVE-2018-1723: IBM Spectrum Scale

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.0, 4.1.1.20, 4.2.0.0, 4.2.3.10, 5.0.0 and 5.0.1.2 could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to read arbitrary files available on this node. IBM X-Force ID: 147373.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Scale: from 4.1.0.0, up to and including 4.1.1.20; from 4.2.0.0, up to and including 4.2.3.10; from 5.0.0.0, up to and including 5.0.1.2

Published 2018-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.