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F5, Cisco admins: Stop what you're doing and check if you need to install these patches
2022-05-06 02:06

F5 Networks and Cisco this week issued warnings about serious, and in some cases critical, security vulnerabilities in their products. "This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port and/or self IP addresses to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, or disable services," as F5 put it in its advisory.

F5 Warns of Critical Bug Allowing Remote Code Execution in BIG-IP Systems
2022-05-05 12:48

Application service provider F5 is warning a critical vulnerability allows unauthenticated hackers with network access to execute arbitrary commands on its BIG-IP systems. Threat actors can send undisclosed requests and leverage the flaw to bypass the iControl REST authentication and access the F5 BIG-IP systems, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands, create or delete files or disable servers.

Critical F5 BIG-IP flaw allows device takeover, patch ASAP! (CVE-2022-1388)
2022-05-05 10:57

F5 Networks' BIG-IP multi-purpose networking devices/modules are vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution attacks via CVE-2022-1388."This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port and/or self IP addresses to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, or disable services," F5 warned yesterday.

F5 warns of critical BIG-IP RCE bug allowing device takeover
2022-05-04 22:16

F5 has issued a security advisory warning about a flaw that may allow unauthenticated attackers with network access to execute arbitrary system commands, perform file actions, and disable services on BIG-IP. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-1388 and has a CVSS v3 severity rating of 9.8, categorized as critical. According to F5's security advisory, the flaw lies in the iControl REST component and allows a malicious actor to send undisclosed requests to bypass the iControl REST authentication in BIG-IP. Due to the severity of the vulnerability and the widespread deployment of BIG-IP products in critical environments, CISA has also issued an alert today.

F5 Warns of a New Critical BIG-IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
2022-05-04 19:38

Cloud security and application delivery network provider F5 on Wednesday released patches to contain 43 bugs spanning its products. "This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port and/or self IP addresses to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, or disable services," F5 said in an advisory.

F5 Releases Critical Security Patch for BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Devices
2021-08-27 00:48

Enterprise security and network appliance vendor F5 has released patches for more than two dozen security vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices that could potentially allow an attacker to perform a wide range of malicious actions, including accessing arbitrary files, escalating privileges, and executing JavaScript code. Chief among them is CVE-2021-23031, a vulnerability affecting BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall and BIG-IP Application Security Manager that allows an authenticated user to perform a privilege escalation.

F5 Releases Critical Security Patch for BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Devices
2021-08-27 00:48

Enterprise security and network appliance vendor F5 has released patches for more than two dozen security vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices that could potentially allow an attacker to perform a wide range of malicious actions, including accessing arbitrary files, escalating privileges, and executing JavaScript code. Chief among them is CVE-2021-23031, a vulnerability affecting BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall and BIG-IP Application Security Manager that allows an authenticated user to perform a privilege escalation.

F5 Bug Could Lead to Complete System Takeover
2021-08-26 16:40

Application delivery and networking firm F5 released a baker's dozen of 13 fixes for high-severity bugs, including one that could lead to complete system takeover and hence is boosted to "Critical" for customers in "Especially sensitive sectors." F5 - maker of near-ubiquitously installed enterprise networking gear - released nearly 30 vulnerabilities for multiple devices in its August security updates.

Critical F5 BIG-IP bug impacts customers in sensitive sectors
2021-08-25 18:58

BIG-IP application services company F5 has fixed more than a dozen high-severity vulnerabilities in its networking device, one of them being elevated to critical severity under specific conditions. The issues are part of this month's delivery of security updates, which addresses almost 30 vulnerabilities for multiple F5 devices.

F5 Big-IP Vulnerable to Security-Bypass Bug
2021-04-29 20:04

F5 Networks' Big-IP Application Delivery Services appliance contains a Key Distribution Center spoofing vulnerability, researchers disclosed - which an attacker could use to get past the security measures that protect sensitive workloads. In some cases, the bug can be used to bypass authentication to the Big-IP admin console as well, they added.