QID 376635

Date Published: 2022-05-26

QID 376635: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (K57555833)

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is a secure, flexible, high-performance solution that provides unified global access to your network, cloud, and applications.

BIG-IP APM does not properly validate configurations, allowing an authenticated attacker with high privileges to manipulate the APM policy leading to privilege escalation/remote code execution. (CVE-2022-27634)

Vulnerable Component:
BIG-IP APM

Affected Versions:
16.1.0 - 16.1.2
15.1.0 - 15.1.5

QID Detection Logic(Authenticated):
This QID checks for the vulnerable versions of F5 BIG-IP devices using the tmsh command.

This vulnerability may allow an authenticated attacker with network access to the Configuration utility through the BIG-IP management port and/or self IP addresses to execute arbitrary system commands. There is no data plane exposure; this is a control plane issue only.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.2 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.5 severity.

Solution

For more information about patch details please refer to: K57555833

Vendor References

K57555833 - support.f5.com/csp/article/K57555833

CVEs related to QID 376635

CVE-2022-27634 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
K57555833			support.f5.com/csp/article/K57555833

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