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CVE-2018-5516 — On F5 BIG-IP 13

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5, 12.1.0-12.1.2, or 11.2.1-11.6.3.1, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.0.0-5.4.0 or 4.6.0, BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0, or F5 iWorkflow 2.0.2-2.3.0, authenticated users granted TMOS Shell (tmsh) access can access object

CVSS
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EPSS
0.11% (top 70.00%)
CWE
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Published
2018-05-02T13:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-09-17T02:41:51.080Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5, 12.1.0-12.1.2, or 11.2.1-11.6.3.1, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.0.0-5.4.0 or 4.6.0, BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0, or F5 iWorkflow 2.0.2-2.3.0, authenticated users granted TMOS Shell (tmsh) access can access objects on the file system which would normally be disallowed by tmsh restrictions. This allows for authenticated, low…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
F5 Networks, Inc.BIGIP (LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator, WebSafe) — 13.0.0-13.1.0.5, 12.1.0-12.1.2, 11.2.1-11.6.3.1
F5 Networks, Inc.Enterprise Manager3.1.1
F5 Networks, Inc.BIGIQ Centralized Management — 5.0.0-5.4.0, 4.6.0
F5 Networks, Inc.BIGIQ Cloud and Orchestration — 1.0.0
F5 Networks, Inc.iWorkflow2.0.2-2.3.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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