IBM Aspera Faspex 5 5.0.0-5.0.14.1 HTML Injection
CVE-2025-36230 Published on December 26, 2025
XSS in IBM Aspera Faspex
IBM Aspera Faspex 5 5.0.0 through 5.0.14.1 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-36230 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Basic XSS Vulnerability?
The software receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. This may allow such characters to be treated as control characters, which are executed client-side in the context of the user's session. Although this can be classified as an injection problem, the more pertinent issue is the improper conversion of such special characters to respective context-appropriate entities before displaying them to the user.
CVE-2025-36230 has been classified to as a Basic XSS vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-36230
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Affected Versions
IBM Aspera Faspex 5:- Version 5.0.0, <= 5.0.14.1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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