ESA-2017-053: EMC Isilon OneFS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ESA-2017-053: EMC Isilon OneFS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 

EMC Identifier: ESA-2017-053

CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-4988

Severity Rating: CVSS v3 Base Score: 
Base Score=> 7.2    (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected products:   
• EMC Isilon OneFS 8.0.1.0
• EMC Isilon OneFS 8.0.0 - 8.0.0.3
• EMC Isilon OneFS 7.2.0 - 7.2.1.4
• EMC Isilon OneFS 7.1.x   

Summary:  
EMC Isilon OneFS is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that could potentially be exploited by attackers to compromise the affected system. 

Details:  
A cluster administrator, a compadmin user, or any user  who has been given sudo privileges to run  isi_for_array commands could potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain root-level access to a cluster.  


Resolution:   
The following versions of EMC Isilon OneFS resolve this vulnerability:
• EMC Isilon OneFS 8.0.1.1
• EMC Isilon OneFS 8.0.0.4
• EMC Isilon OneFS 7.2.1.5
Link to remedies:

Registered EMC Online Support customers can download OneFS installation files from the Downloads for Isilon OneFS page of the EMC Online Support site at https://support.emc.com/downloads/15209_Isilon-OneFS. 

If you have any questions, please contact EMC Support.


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