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CVE-2026-14996 – Insufficient Session Expiration / Session Hijacking – IBM Aspera Faspex 5 (5.0.0 th

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Summary

CVE-2026-14996 is an insufficient session expiration vulnerability (CWE-613) in IBM Aspera Faspex 5. Because sessions are not invalidated within an expected timeframe, an attacker who obtains a still-valid session artifact can gain unauthorized access to the application and its resources. IBM rates this issue HIGH with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.2.

Technical details

  • Root cause: Insufficient session expiration (CWE-613) — the application does not properly terminate or time out authenticated sessions, so session identifiers/tokens remain valid longer than intended.
  • Trigger conditions: An attacker gains access to a session artifact that should have been expired (for example, a session that persists after it should have been invalidated), then reuses it against the Faspex 5 web interface.
  • Attack vector: Network (AV:N). The flaw is remotely exploitable, requires no privileges (PR:N) and no user interaction (UI:N), with low attack complexity (AC:L).
  • Impact: High confidentiality impact (C:H) with a low integrity impact (I:L) and no direct availability impact (A:N), enabling unauthorized access to system resources and data.

Affected software

  • IBM Aspera Faspex 5, versions 5.0.0 through 5.0.15.4 (Linux).

Severity

  • CVSS v3.1 Base Score: 8.2 (HIGH)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Mitigation and recommended actions

  • Immediate: Upgrade IBM Aspera Faspex 5 to version 5.0.16 or later, available via IBM Fix Central.
  • If no patch can be applied immediately: Restrict network exposure of the Faspex 5 web interface (place it behind a VPN or IP allowlisting), enforce short session lifetimes and re-authentication where configurable, and monitor for anomalous or reused session activity until the upgrade is completed.

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