Security Bulletin: Privilege Escalation / User Impersonation affects IBM Platform LSF and IBM Spectrum LSF

Summary This is to address security vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum LSF and IBM Platform LSF Load Sharing Facility that could allow a local attacker to impersonate arbitrary users to submit jobs to LSF, and possibly run LSF jobs as root. LSF uses an external authentication framework to secure use...

IBM Spectrum LSF Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability was identified within IBM Spectrum LSF which made it was possible to impersonate other users when submitting jobs for execution. Additionally, it was found to be possible to impersonate and execute jobs as root, even where root job submission is disabled. Versions affected include...