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CVE-2020-4436

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% 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-120

Description

Certain IBM Aspera applications are vulnerable to buffer overflow after valid authentication, which could allow an attacker with intimate knowledge of the system to execute arbitrary code through a service. IBM X-Force ID: 180902.

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/180902
• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6221324
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/180902
• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6221324

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