VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0263

high
Published 2016-06-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.0

Description

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1 before 4.1.1.5 and 4.2 before 4.2.0.2 and General Parallel File System 3.5 before 3.5.0.30 allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a crafted mmapplypolicy command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.1
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.2
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.3
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.4
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.5
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.6
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.7
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.8
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.9
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.10
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.11
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.12
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.13
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.14
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.15
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.16
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.17
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.18
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.19
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.20
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.21
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.22
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.23
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.24
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.25
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.26
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.27
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.28
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system_storage_server3.5.0.29
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.1
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.2
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.3
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.4
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.2.0.0
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.2.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.