IBM Aspera Desktop App 1.0.5-1.0.19 DLL Loading RCE
CVE-2026-11980 Published on July 30, 2026
Code execution in IBM Desktop App
IBM Aspera Desktop App 1.0.5 through 1.0.19 can allow arbitrary code execution by loading DLL files at start-up.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-11980 is exploitable with local system 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 be very high.
Weakness Type
Use of Inherently Dangerous Function
The program calls a function that can never be guaranteed to work safely. Certain functions behave in dangerous ways regardless of how they are used. Functions in this category were often implemented without taking security concerns into account. The gets() function is unsafe because it does not perform bounds checking on the size of its input. An attacker can easily send arbitrarily-sized input to gets() and overflow the destination buffer. Similarly, the >> operator is unsafe to use when reading into a statically-allocated character array because it does not perform bounds checking on the size of its input. An attacker can easily send arbitrarily-sized input to the >> operator and overflow the destination buffer.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-11980
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Affected Versions
IBM Aspera Desktop App:- Version 1.0.5, <= 1.0.19 is affected.