What is CVE-2024-56473?

CVE-2024-56473 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aspera Shares, classified under Improper Output Neutralization for Logs. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-02-05.

How severe is CVE-2024-56473?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in IBM Aspera Shares

CVE-2024-56473

IBM Aspera Shares 1.9.0 through 1.10.0 PL6 could allow an attacker to spoof their IP address, which is written to log files, due to improper verification of 'Client-IP' headers.

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (18.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 19th percentile — 18.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-56473?: CVE-2024-56473 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aspera Shares, classified under Improper Output Neutralization for Logs. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-02-05.
How severe is CVE-2024-56473?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.