CVE-2022-43869

IBM Spectrum Scale denial of service

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Feb 8, 2023
Updated: Mar 25, 2025
Reserved: Oct 26, 2022

Description

IBM Spectrum Scale (5.1.0.0 through 5.1.2.8 and 5.1.3.0 through 5.1.5.1) and IBM Elastic Storage System (6.1.0.0 through 6.1.2.4 and 6.1.3.0 through 6.1.4.1) could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service through the GUI using a format string attack. IBM X-Force ID: 239539.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	ibm

Weaknesses

CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Elastic Storage SystemIBM	6.1.0.0 to before 6.1.2.4Affected
Spectrum ScaleIBM	5.1.0.0 to before 5.1.2.8Affected 5.1.3.0 to before 5.1.5.1Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6909469vendor-advisory
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6909465vendor-advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239539vdb-entry

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