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CVE-2023-27285 (GCVE-0-2023-27285)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-04 23:52 – Updated: 2025-01-08 19:48
VLAI
Title
IBM Aspera buffer overflow
Summary
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SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-08 19:45 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Aspera Connect Affected: 4.2.5
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IBM Aspera Cargo Affected: 4.2.5
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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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