What is CVE-2025-36040?

CVE-2025-36040 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex, classified under Insufficient Session Expiration. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-07-31.

How severe is CVE-2025-36040?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex

CVE-2025-36040

IBM Aspera Faspex 5.0.0 through 5.0.12.1 could allow an authenticated user to perform unauthorized actions due to client-side enforcement of sever side security mechanisms.

Published 2025-07-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (11.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-19.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 11th percentile — 11.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Aspera Faspex — versions 5.0.0
IBM Aspera Faspex

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-613 — Insufficient Session Expiration

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7241007 (vendor-advisory, patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-36040?: CVE-2025-36040 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex, classified under Insufficient Session Expiration. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2025-36040?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.