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CVE-2020-4433

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-06-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Certain IBM Aspera applications are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. This could allow a remote attacker with intimate knowledge of the server to execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of root or cause server to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 180814.

Affected products

• IBM Aspera Application Platform On Demand: through 3.7.4
• IBM Aspera Faspex On Demand: through 3.7.4
• IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint: through 3.9.3
• IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server: through 3.9.3
• IBM Aspera HSTS for CP4I: through 3.9.10
• IBM Aspera Proxy Server: through 1.4.3
• IBM Aspera Server On Demand: through 3.7.4
• IBM Aspera Shares On Demand: through 3.7.4
• IBM Aspera Streaming: through 3.9.3
• IBM Aspera Transfer Cluster Manager: through 1.3.1

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/180814
• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6221324
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/180814
• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6221324

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