🛡️ CVE-2026-14959 — 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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

• 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: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-14959 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2026-14959 is recorded against 1 package.

• aspera-faspex (from 5.0.0 up to 5.0.16)

Timeline and source

Published on 28 July 2026 and last revised on 5 August 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-2026-14958 (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-2025-36228 (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-78: OS Command Injection) in other software:

• CVE-2023-49900 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-0815 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-5002 (6.0 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-40189 (9.8 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2021-21386 (9.5 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2022-38649 (9.8 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2022-45899 (6.5 Medium, published 8 May 2026)
• CVE-2022-50994 (8.1 High, published 8 May 2026)

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