CVE-2023-27874

IBM Aspera Faspex XML external entity injection

At a glance

Severity: CRITICAL 9.9
EPSS: EPSS 1.34 % · percentile 71 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-03-21
Updated: 2025-02-26
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

Description

IBM Aspera Faspex 4.4.2 is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands. IBM X-Force ID: 249845.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	ibm
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-611

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-31609
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-27874

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:aspera_faspex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≤ 4.4.2
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:aspera_faspex:4.4.2:patch_level_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:aspera_faspex:4.4.2:patch_level_2:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · Aspera Faspex	affected 4.4.2

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
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