CVE-2025-0162
Published: 07 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-0162 is an XML external entity injection (XXE) vulnerability, mapped to CWE-611, affecting IBM Aspera Shares versions 1.9.9 through 1.10.0 PL7. The issue arises when the software processes XML data, potentially allowing improper handling of external entities.
A remote authenticated attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). Exploitation could enable the attacker to disclose sensitive information (C:H) or consume memory resources (A:L), with no integrity impact (I:N) and unchanged scope (S:U). The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.1.
IBM's security advisory provides details on mitigation and patching; see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7185096.
Details
- CWE(s)
Affected Products
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
XXE vulnerability in public-facing web application directly enables exploitation via T1190 and facilitates local file reading for sensitive data disclosure via T1005.