What is CVE-2024-38316?

CVE-2024-38316 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aspera Shares, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-02-05.

How severe is CVE-2024-38316?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in IBM Aspera Shares

CVE-2024-38316

IBM Aspera Shares 1.9.0 through 1.10.0 PL6 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.

Published 2025-02-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (29.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 29.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

IBM Aspera Shares — versions 1.9.0
IBM Aspera Shares — versions 1.10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7182490 (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-38316?: CVE-2024-38316 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aspera Shares, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-02-05.
How severe is CVE-2024-38316?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.