Spectrum Scale and IBM Elastic Storage System Licensing Issues Vulnerability

IBM Spectrum Scale is a scalable data and file management solution from IBM based on IBM GPFS (an enterprise file management system optimized for petabyte-scale storage management). The product supports helping customers reduce storage costs while improving security and management efficiency in cloud, big data and analytics environments, etc. Spectrum Scale 5.1 core components and IBM Elastic Storage System 6.1 have an authorization issue vulnerability that could be exploited by an unauthorized attacker to access user data or inject arbitrary The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthorized attackers to access user data or inject arbitrary data into communication protocols.