Description

Acunetix determined that the IBM Aspera Faspex is vulnerable to remote code execution due to insecure YAML deserialization. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted serialized data to execute arbitrary code on the system or to perform a denial of service attack.

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of IBM Aspera Faspex

References

Security Bulletin: IBM Aspera Faspex 4.4.2 PL2 has addressed multiple vulnerabilities

Pre-Auth RCE in Aspera Faspex: Case Guide for Auditing Ruby on Rails

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Severity

Critical

Classification

CVE-2022-47986 CWE-502 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

Tags

Insecure Deserialization Known Vulnerabilities