Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the F5’s BIG-IP network software (BIG-IP iControl REST) authentication. Disclosed last week, the bug affects multiple versions of the network management software, which is being tracked as CVE-2022-1388.
Patch ASAP!
Although CVE-2022-1388 is a proof-of-concept (PoC), there is still a high chance that this vulnerability could expose thousands of users to a remote takeover of their systems, whereby a threat actor could potentially execute commands on a vulnerable device and gain access using elevated privileges.
Mitigations
F5 have already released security firmware updates for the following:
- BIG-IP versions 16.1.0 to 16.1.2 (Patch released)
- BIG-IP versions 15.1.0 to 15.1.5 (Patch released)
- BIG-IP versions 14.1.0 to 14.1.4 (Patch released)
- BIG-IP versions 13.1.0 to 13.1.4 (Patch released)
- BIG-IP versions 12.1.0 to 12.1.6 (End of Support)
- BIG-IP versions 11.6.1 to 11.6.5 (End of Support)
Organisations running firmware versions 11.x and 12.x will not receive security updates and should upgrade to a newer version as soon as possible.
If you cannot upgrade straight away, please follow the following steps:
- BIG-IP iControl REST vulnerability CVE-2022-1388 (f5.com)
- BIG-IP iControl REST vulnerability CVE-2022-1388 (f5.com)
- BIG-IP iControl REST vulnerability CVE-2022-1388 (f5.com)
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