01 Record
CVE-2020-4436
Certain IBM Aspera applications are vulnerable to buffer overflow after valid authentication, which could allow an attacker with intimate knowledge of the system to execute arbitrary code through a
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: ibm
CNA base score8.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:N/A:H/C:H/S:U/PR:L/AC:L/UI:N/I:H/RL:O/E:U/RC:C
02 Description
Certain IBM Aspera applications are vulnerable to buffer overflow after valid authentication, which could allow an attacker with intimate knowledge of the system to execute arbitrary code through a
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.09% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-06-10 12:57Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 22:56Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-12-30
- Assigning CNA
- ibm
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 8.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/A:H/C:H/S:U/PR:L/AC:L/UI:N/I:H/RL:O/E:U/RC:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8e61c313d5702bf28d68009726607eac1fa67a4882e1fe266a554be562065c19
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6221324
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comibm-aspera-cve20204436-bo (180902)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/180902