CVE-2024-56473
Published: 05 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-56473 is a medium-severity Improper Output Neutralization for Logs (CWE-117) vulnerability in Ibm Aspera Shares. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 27.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-53171
Vulnerability details
IBM Aspera Shares 1.9.0 through 1.10.0 PL6 could allow an attacker to spoof their IP address, which is written to log files, due to improper verification of 'Client-IP' headers.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.
Policy and procedures require sanitization and neutralization when generating audit logs to avoid injection issues.