CVE-2024-56472 IBM Aspera Shares Cross-Site Scripting

What is CVE-2024-56472?

CVE-2024-56472 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in IBM Aspera Shares, published on 5 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Aspera Shares 1.9.0 through 1.10.0 PL6 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows authenticated users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56472?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Aspera Shares.

How do I fix CVE-2024-56472?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-56472 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2024-56472 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56472 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Aspera Shares

• CVE-2025-0162 IBM Aspera Shares XML external entity injection High 7.1
• CVE-2025-66483 Multiple vulnerabilities have been addressed in IBM Aspera Shares Medium 6.3
• CVE-2024-38315 IBM Aspera Shares session fixation Medium 6.3
• CVE-2023-38018 IBM Aspera Shares session fixation Medium 6.3
• CVE-2020-4731 Cross-site scripting in Aspera Shares Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5mr2-544h-qvrm.