Security Resilience

CVE-2023-37413

Ibm Aspera Faspex 5.0.0 – 5.0.10

Published
29 January 2025
Modified
04 March 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0030 21th percentile
Risk Priority 43 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-37413 is a medium-severity Observable Response Discrepancy (CWE-204) vulnerability in Ibm Aspera Faspex. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Steganography (T1001.002); ranked at the 21th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to IA-6 (Authentication Feedback) and SI-11 (Error Handling) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

IBM Aspera Faspex 5.0.0 through 5.0.10 could disclose sensitive username information due to an observable response discrepancy.

CWE(s)
CWE-204CWE-203

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1001.002 Steganography Command And Control
Adversaries may use steganographic techniques to hide command and control traffic to make detection efforts more difficult.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.003 NTDS Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access or create a copy of the Active Directory domain database in order to steal credential information, as well as obtain other information about domain members such as devices, users, and access rights.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.004 LSA Secrets Credential Access
Adversaries with SYSTEM access to a host may attempt to access Local Security Authority (LSA) secrets, which can contain a variety of different credential materials, such as credentials for service accounts.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.007 Proc Filesystem Credential Access
Adversaries may gather credentials from the proc filesystem or `/proc`.
attack.mitre.org →
T1011 Exfiltration Over Other Network Medium Exfiltration
Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data over a different network medium than the command and control channel.
attack.mitre.org →
T1011.001 Exfiltration Over Bluetooth Exfiltration
Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data over Bluetooth rather than the command and control channel.
attack.mitre.org →
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2023-35907Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2023-37398Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2025-36230Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2024-31870Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2023-27283Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2023-37411Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2023-50306Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2024-35114Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2024-45098Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2023-37412Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex

Affected Assets

ibm
aspera faspex
5.0.0 — 5.0.10

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 1 hardening rule · 1 OS baseline
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V13.4.5

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

IA-6 Authentication Feedback good match

Obscuring authentication feedback directly stops one common source of observable response discrepancies.

SI-11 Error Handling good match

Error handling explicitly requires messages that avoid revealing exploitable internal information.

AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement partial match

Information flow enforcement can block responses that would otherwise disclose internal state to unauthorized parties.

SC-7 Boundary Protection partial match

Boundary protection monitors and filters outbound responses that could leak internal state.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 partial match
blocks

Secure SDLC practices directly prevent introduction of inconsistent response behavior that leaks internal state.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.5.14 Information transfer partial match
removes
A.5.15 Access control partial match
removes
A.5.16 Identity management partial match
removes
A.5.17 Authentication information partial match
removes
A.5.18 Access rights partial match
removes
A.6.8 Information security event reporting partial match
removes

References