🛡️ CVE-2025-36228 — aspera-faspex

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. 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:H/UI:N/S:U/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: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• 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-2025-36228 is classified as CWE-279: Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions. While it is executing, the product sets the permissions of an object in a way that violates the intended permissions that have been specified by the user.

Affected software

CVE-2025-36228 is recorded against 1 package.

• aspera-faspex (from 5.0.0 up to 5.0.14.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 26 December 2025 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-2026-14958 (9.1 Critical, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-14996 (8.2 High, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-14959 (9.1 Critical, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-36227 (5.4 Medium, published 10 Mar 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-2025-36225 (4.3 Medium, published 9 Oct 2025)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-279: Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions) in other software:

• CVE-2026-46388 (4.4 Medium, published 10 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-4948 (5.5 Medium, published 27 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2026-20062 (7.2 High, published 4 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-12801 (6.5 Medium, published 4 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-14025 (8.5 High, published 8 Jan 2026)
• CVE-2025-13663 (6.7 Medium, published 11 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2024-25621 (8.0 High, published 6 Nov 2025)
• CVE-2025-30001 (8.0 High, published 10 Oct 2025)

Details

Affected Packages

References