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Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage AccessApplication · Ibm

CVE-2022-41738

HIGH · 7.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2024-02-17
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to after 5.1.7.0 or later.
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84/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
IBM Storage Scale Container Native Storage Access 5.1.2.1 -through 5.1.7.0 could allow an attacker to initiate connections to containers from external networks. IBM X-Force ID: 237812.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · moderate confidence

IBM Storage Scale Container Native Storage Access versions 5.1.2.1 through 5.1.7.0 contains a network isolation flaw that allows containers to accept connections from external networks. This bypasses expected container network boundaries and could enable unauthorized external actors to communicate with internal containers.

MitigationUpgrade IBM Storage Scale Container Native Storage Access to a version beyond 5.1.7.0 (or apply IBM's published fix). Implement network segmentation and firewall rules to restrict external access to containers as a compensating control until the upgrade is applied.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage AccessApplication
Affected:>= 5.1.2.1, <= 5.1.7.0

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify installed version
    Run 'ibmSpectrumScale version' or check the operator pod image version using 'kubectl get pods -n <namespace> -o jsonpath="{.items[*].spec.containers[*].image}"'. Compare this to the affected range 5.1.2.1 through 5.1.7.0.
    Affected if The installed version is 5.1.2.1, 5.1.7.0, or any version in between.
  2. Review container network policies
    Check Kubernetes network policies applied to the IBM Spectrum Scale namespace using 'kubectl get networkpolicies -n <scale-namespace> -o yaml'. Verify if policies explicitly block external traffic.
    Affected if No network policies exist or policies allow traffic from external CIDR ranges to container pods.
  3. Inspect container service configurations
    Run 'kubectl get svc -n <scale-namespace>' and review service type settings. Check if any services are exposed with type LoadBalancer or NodePort unnecessarily.
    Affected if Services are exposed externally (LoadBalancer/NodePort) when they should be ClusterIP for internal communication only.
  4. Verify container listening interfaces
    Exec into a container pod ('kubectl exec -it <pod> -n <scale-namespace> -- /bin/bash') and run 'netstat -tuln' or 'ss -tuln' to see which interfaces containers are listening on.
    Affected if Containers are listening on 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 or container-internal IPs.
  5. Check host-level firewall rules
    Review iptables or firewalld rules on worker nodes for rules that allow unrestricted external traffic to container pod subnets.
    Affected if Firewall rules permit unrestricted inbound access to the pod network from external sources.

You are affected if your IBM Storage Scale Container Native Storage Access version is between 5.1.2.1 and 5.1.7.0 and containers are reachable from external networks due to missing or permissive network policies.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to a release after 5.1.7.0
Interim mitigation

Upgrade IBM Storage Scale Container Native Storage Access to a version beyond 5.1.7.0 (or apply IBM's published fix). Implement network segmentation and firewall rules to restrict external access to containers as a compensating control until the upgrade is applied.

Recommended fix Moderate confidence

5.1.7.1 or later

  1. Identify the current IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access version in use
  2. Plan maintenance window for the upgrade process
  3. Back up all critical data and container configurations
  4. Stop all running containers and services dependent on the storage access
  5. Upgrade IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access to version 5.1.7.1 or later
  6. Verify the upgrade was successful by checking the version number
  7. Restart container services and verify normal operation
  8. Validate that external network connections to containers are properly restricted
Caveat Review IBM documentation for any configuration changes required between 5.1.7.0 and the target version

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

Fix this in Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation3.0 h
  • Implementation6.0 h
  • Testing4.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
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