Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-8180

HighUpdated

Published: 27 May 2026

Published
27 May 2026
Modified
05 June 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0028 19.6th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-8180 is a high-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Ibm Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 19.6th 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 potential denial of service in the asperahttpd…

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component. An unauthenticated user can cause the asperahttpd service to crash.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

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.
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T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
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Why these techniques?

Null dereference in public-facing asperahttpd enables unauthenticated remote DoS via application exploitation.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2026-8175Same product: Ibm Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint
CVE-2026-8179Same product: Ibm Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint
CVE-2025-3356Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2024-45650Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2026-1376Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2025-12531Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2026-9319Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2024-41787Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2025-3354Same vendor: Ibm
CVE-2026-25501Shared CWE-476

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.

References