CVE-2023-43124 — BIG-IP APM clients may send IP traffic outside of the VPN tunnel

BIG-IP APM clients may send IP traffic outside of the VPN tunnel. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

01What is this vulnerability?

BIG-IP APM clients may send IP traffic outside of the VPN tunnel. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
F5	BIG	IP Edge Client — 7.2.3
F5	F5 Access	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

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

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

• Published: 2023-09-27T15:21:50.794Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-23T15:06:23.816Z

09References

• my.f5.com — https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000136907