CVE-2020-4278: IBM Platform Lsf

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Platform LSF 9.1 and 10.1, IBM Spectrum LSF Suite 10.2, and IBM Spectrum Suite for HPA 10.2 could allow a local user to escalate their privileges due to weak file permissions when specific debug settings are enabled in a Linux or Unix enviornment. IBM X-Force ID: 176137.

Affected products

• IBM Platform Lsf: version 9.1 only; version 10.1 only
• IBM Spectrum Computing For High Performance Analytics: version 10.2 only
• IBM Spectrum Lsf: version 10.2 only

Published 2020-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.