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CVE-2016-2985

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
25/11/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.x before 4.1.1.8 and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.4 and General Parallel File System (GPFS) 3.5.x before 3.5.0.32 and 4.1.x before 4.1.1.8 allow local users to gain privileges via crafted environment variables to a /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/ setuid program.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.00 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
7.00
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
6.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.1.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.1.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.1.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.1.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.1.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:4.2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:general_parallel_file_system:3.5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:general_parallel_file_system:3.5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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