What is CVE-2025-36171?

CVE-2025-36171 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-10-09.

How severe is CVE-2025-36171?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-36171 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in IBM Aspera Faspex

CVE-2025-36171

IBM Aspera Faspex 5.0.0 through 5.0.13.1 could allow a privileged user to cause a denial of service from improperly validated API input due to excessive resource consumption.

Published 2025-10-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (22.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 23rd percentile — 22.8% 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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7247502 (vendor-advisory, patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-36171?: CVE-2025-36171 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-10-09.
How severe is CVE-2025-36171?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-36171 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.