Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Aspera Desktop App is affected by inefficient regular expression complexity which can cause excessive CPU cycles and lack of validation on the Origin header which could cause an unauthorized access to any functionality accessible to the communication source. These vulnerabilities have been addressed in Aspera Desktop App version 1.0.8.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2025-27789
DESCRIPTION: Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript. When using versions of Babel prior to 7.26.10 and 8.0.0-alpha.17 to compile regular expression named capturing groups, Babel will generate a polyfill for the `.replace` method that has quadratic complexity on some specific replacement pattern strings (i.e. the second argument passed to `.replace`). Generated code is vulnerable if all the following conditions are true: Using Babel to compile regular expression named capturing groups, using the `.replace` method on a regular expression that contains named capturing groups, and the code using untrusted strings as the second argument of `.replace`. This problem has been fixed in `@babel/helpers` and `@babel/runtime` 7.26.10 and 8.0.0-alpha.17. It's likely that individual users do not directly depend on `@babel/helpers`, and instead depend on `@babel/core` (which itself depends on `@babel/helpers`). Upgrading to `@babel/core` 7.26.10 is not required, but it guarantees use of a new enough `@babel/helpers` version. Note that just updating Babel dependencies is not enough; one will also need to re-compile the code. No known workarounds are available.
CWE: CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
CVSS Source: security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-24010
DESCRIPTION: Vite is a frontend tooling framework for javascript. Vite allowed any websites to send any requests to the development server and read the response due to default CORS settings and lack of validation on the Origin header for WebSocket connections. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.0.9, 5.4.12, and 4.5.6.
CWE: CWE-346: Origin Validation Error
CVSS Source: security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| Aspera Desktop App | 1.0.5 - 1.0.7 |
Remediation/Fixes
It is recommended to apply the fix as soon as possible, see the link below.
| Fixed in | Version(s) |
| IBM Aspera Desktop App | 1.0.8 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
11 Apr 2025: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
11 April 2025
Initial Publish date:
11 April 2025
UID
ibm17230753