CVE-2018-1782: IBM Spectrum Scale

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.1.0 and 5.0.1.1) allows a local, unprivileged user to cause a kernel panic on a node running GPFS by accessing a file that is stored on a GPFS file system with mmap, or by executing a crafted file stored on a GPFS file system. IBM X-Force ID: 148805.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Scale: version 5.0.1.0 only; version 5.0.1.1 only

Published 2018-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.