Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-36230

XSS in Ibm Aspera Faspex 5.0.0 – 5.0.14.2

XSS
Published
26 December 2025
Modified
29 December 2025
Patch / advisory
View advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 5.4
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0017 7th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-36230 is a medium-severity Basic XSS (CWE-80) vulnerability in Ibm Aspera Faspex. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 7th 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A05:2025 Injection

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

IBM Aspera Faspex 5 5.0.0 through 5.0.14.1 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.

CWE(s)
CWE-80

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2023-37400Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2025-36229Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2025-36228Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2024-45098Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2023-22869Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2023-27279Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2024-45097Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2023-37411Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2023-35907Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex
CVE-2025-36039Same product: Ibm Aspera Faspex

Affected Assets

ibm
aspera faspex
5.0.0 — 5.0.14.2

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • SI-15 Information Output Filtering
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)
  • SI-3 Malicious Code Protection
Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.2.1
  • V1.3.1
  • V1.3.3
  • V1.3.4

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Requires validation of all untrusted input to Faspex web forms and APIs, directly blocking the malicious HTML that triggers the CWE-80 injection.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering good match
prevent

Mandates filtering or encoding of all dynamic content returned to browsers, neutralizing injected HTML before it executes in the victim's context.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection partial match
detect

Deploys malicious-code detection mechanisms that can identify and block execution of injected scripts within the Faspex application.

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 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require output encoding and input validation that prevent basic XSS.

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.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
detects

Security testing in development catches unneutralized script tags before release.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure SDLC mandates input validation and output encoding that directly prevent basic XSS.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
prevents

Application security requirements explicitly call for neutralization of script-related HTML tags.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards require proper escaping of <, >, & to block XSS.

A.8.23 Web filtering none match
none

Web filtering can block some reflected XSS payloads at the network edge.

References