IBM Storage Scale 5.2.3.0 through 5.2.3.8, and 6.0.1.0 does not validate or improperly validates TLS certificate validation when communicating with remote cluster GUI interfaces, which could allow an attacker to inject forged JSON responses using man in the middle techniques.
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