CVE-2023-43040 (GCVE-0-2023-43040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-13 02:18 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:25
VLAI
Title
IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI improper access control
Summary
IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI 2.5.2 through 2.7.2 could allow an attacker to perform unauthorized actions in RGW for Ceph due to improper bucket access. IBM X-Force ID: 266807.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-1220 - Insufficient Granularity of Access Control
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI Affected: 2.5.2 , ≤ 2.7.2 (semver)
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ibm spectrum_fusion_hci Affected: 2.5.2
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_fusion_hci:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Josh Baergen, Lucas Henry, and Michael Steger - Digital Ocean
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