Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-8175

CriticalUpdated

Published: 27 May 2026

Published
27 May 2026
Modified
05 June 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0058 43.4th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-8175 is a critical-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Ibm Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 43.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint 3.7.4 through 4.4.7 Fix Pack 1 and IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server 3.7.4 through 4.4.7 Fix Pack 1 and IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint are affected by a buffer overflow in the asperahttpd component. This…

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vulnerability could be exploited to cause a denial of service and potentially lead to authentication bypass or remote code execution.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Why these techniques?

Buffer overflow in network-facing asperahttpd service directly enables remote exploitation for RCE/auth bypass on public-facing transfer server.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

ibm
aspera high-speed transfer endpoint
4.4.7 · 3.7.4 — 4.4.6
ibm
aspera high-speed transfer server
4.4.7 · 3.7.4 — 4.4.6

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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