CVE-2025-66485
MediumCVSS 5.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs
Summary
IBM Aspera Shares versions 1.9.9 through 1.11.0 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection caused by improper validation of the HOST header. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning, or session hijacking.
Risk Assessment
An attacker could exploit this to perform attacks on the system, potentially leading to data theft, session hijacking, or cache poisoning.
Recommendation
Update IBM Aspera Shares to a patched version and configure the server to properly validate HOST headers.
Other vulnerabilities in IBM Aspera Shares
See all- CVE-2025-66487Low
IBM Aspera Shares 1.9.9 through 1.11.0 does not properly rate limit the frequency that an authenticated user can send emails, which could result in email flooding or a denial of service.
- CVE-2025-66486Medium
IBM Aspera Shares versions 1.9.9 through 1.11.0 are 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.
- CVE-2025-66484Medium
IBM Aspera Shares 1.9.9 through 1.11.0 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI, thus altering the intended functionality and potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.
- CVE-2025-66483Medium
In IBM Aspera Shares versions 1.9.9 through 1.11.0, sessions are not invalidated after a password reset, which could allow an authenticated user to impersonate another user on the system.
- CVE-2025-13916Medium
IBM Aspera Shares versions 1.9.9 through 1.11.0 use weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms, which could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information.
Original NVD description (English source)
IBM Aspera Shares 1.9.9 through 1.11.0 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS