Security Bulletin: A vulnerability may affect the IBM Elastic Storage System GUI (CVE-2022-43869)

Summary

Vulnerabilities exist in all levels of IBM Elastic Storage System GUI. A fix for this vulnerability is available.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-43869
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Spectrum Scale could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service through the GUI using a format string attack.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239539 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM recommends that you fix this vulnerability by upgrading affected versions of IBM Elastic Storage System 3000, 3200, 3500 and 5000 to the following code levels or higher:

V6.1.5.0 or higher

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=6.1.5&platform=All&function=all

V6.1.2.5 or higher

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=6.1.0&platform=All&function=all

Workarounds and Mitigations

None