CVE-2025-36040 IBM Aspera Faspex session fixation

What is CVE-2025-36040?

CVE-2025-36040 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex, published on 30 Jul 2025. 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 5.0.12.1 could allow an authenticated user to perform unauthorized actions due to client-side enforcement of sever side security mechanisms.

Weakness: CWE-613

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-36040?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Aspera Faspex.

How do I fix CVE-2025-36040?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-36040 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2025-36040 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-36040 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-v7j8-qgf8-rf5g.