CVE-2022-47986

IBM Aspera Faspex code execution

At a glance

Severity: CRITICAL 9.8
Exploitation: Known exploited (CISA KEV) · added 2023-02-21
Exploited per ENISA since 2023-02-21
EPSS: EPSS 99.97 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-02-17
Updated: 2025-10-21
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

IBM Aspera Faspex 4.4.2 Patch Level 1 and earlier could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a YAML deserialization flaw. By sending a specially crafted obsolete API call, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system. The obsolete API call was removed in Faspex 4.4.2 PL2. IBM X-Force ID: 243512.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ibm
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-502

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-50700
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-47986

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:aspera_faspex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≤ 4.4.1
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:aspera_faspex:4.4.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:aspera_faspex:4.4.2:patch_level_1:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · Aspera Faspex	affected 4.4.2 Patch Level 1 and earlier

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities	CC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD