CVE-2023-38001
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedIBM Aspera Orchestrator 4.0.1 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts. IBM X-Force ID: 260206.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceIBM Aspera Orchestrator 4.0.1 contains a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability with CVSS 6.5. This allows attackers to trick authenticated users into unknowingly executing unauthorized state-changing actions, leveraging the trust relationship between the website and the user's browser.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 4.0.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm installed versionCheck the IBM Aspera Orchestrator version number in the product UI or via command line (such as 'ibm-aspera-orchestrator --version' or through the admin interface).Affected if The installed version is exactly 4.0.1
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Inspect state-changing endpoints for anti-CSRF tokensUse a browser developer tool or proxy to capture a request when performing a state-changing action (e.g., creating a user, modifying settings). Examine if the request includes a CSRF token parameter or header.Affected if State-changing requests lack anti-CSRF tokens or have predictable/empty token values
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Check session cookie SameSite attributeUsing browser developer tools, inspect the session cookie(s) for the Aspera Orchestrator application. Look for the 'SameSite' attribute in the Set-Cookie header.Affected if Session cookies have SameSite attribute set to 'None' or missing entirely (not set to 'Strict' or 'Lax')
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Verify Origin/Referer header validationCapture a request to a state-changing endpoint and examine server-side code or response behavior when the Origin or Referer header is modified or removed.Affected if The application accepts requests with missing or spoofed Origin/Referer headers without rejecting them
You are affected if IBM Aspera Orchestrator version 4.0.1 is installed AND state-changing operations lack anti-CSRF token protection, proper SameSite cookie attributes, or Origin/Referer header validation.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations, configure SameSite attributes on session cookies, and validate Origin/Referer headers to prevent forged requests from malicious sites.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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