CVE-2023-27279 IBM Aspera Faspex denial of service

What is CVE-2023-27279?

CVE-2023-27279 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex, published on 19 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Aspera Faspex 5.0.0 through 5.0.7 could allow a user to cause a denial of service due to missing API rate limiting. IBM X-Force ID: 248533.

Weakness: CWE-799

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-27279?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Aspera Faspex.

How do I fix CVE-2023-27279?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-27279 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-27279 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-27279 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Aspera Faspex

• CVE-2022-47986 IBM Aspera Faspex Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-27874 IBM Aspera Faspex XML external entity injection Critical 9.9
• CVE-2026-14958 OS command injection in IBM Aspera Faspex Critical 9.1
• CVE-2026-14959 OS Command Injection in IBM Aspera Faspex Critical 9.1
• CVE-2026-14996 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Aspera Faspex High 8.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4w8x-p5gf-gh2h.