🛡️ CVE-2025-36227 — aspera-faspex

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-36227 is classified as CWE-644: Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes web scripting syntax in HTTP headers that can be used by web browser components that can process raw headers, such as Flash.

Affected software

CVE-2025-36227 is recorded against 1 package.

• aspera-faspex (from 5.0.0 up to 5.0.15)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 March 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.ibm.com

Other advisories for this package

aspera-faspex has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-14996 (8.2 High, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-14959 (9.1 Critical, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-14958 (9.1 Critical, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-36226 (5.4 Medium, published 10 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-36230 (5.4 Medium, published 26 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-36229 (3.1 Low, published 26 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-36228 (3.8 Low, published 26 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-36225 (4.3 Medium, published 9 Oct 2025)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-644: Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax) in other software:

• CVE-2026-72574 (6.1 Medium, published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-0516 (6.5 Medium, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-48061 (5.9 Medium, published 3 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-21762 (3.7 Low, published 17 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-54477 (5.4 Medium, published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-51454 (6.5 Medium, published 22 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-10836 (published 17 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-4096 (6.5 Medium, published 11 Jun 2026)

Details

Affected Packages

References