CVE-2018-1783: IBM Spectrum Scale

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM GPFS (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) command line utility allows an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to forcefully terminate GPFS and deny access to data available through GPFS. IBM X-Force ID: 148806.

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.