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Alert: F5 Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting BIG-IP Vulnerability
2023-11-01 04:53

F5 is warning of active abuse of a critical security flaw in BIG-IP less than a week after its public disclosure that could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands as part of an exploit chain. Tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port to achieve code execution


News URL

https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/alert-f5-warns-of-active-attacks.html

Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2023-10-26 CVE-2023-46747 Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in F5 products
Undisclosed requests may bypass configuration utility authentication, allowing an attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port and/or self IP addresses to execute arbitrary system commands.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated
network
low complexity
f5 CWE-306
critical
9.8

Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
F5 141 6 267 399 64 736