Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2024
Technology firm F5 patches a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in BIG-IP and a medium-severity flaw in BIG-IQ. F5 addressed two vulnerabilities in BIG-IP and BIG-IQ enterprise products, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-45844 and CVE-2024-47139. An authenticated attacker, with Manager role privileges or higher, could exploit the vulnerability CVE-2024-45844 to elevate privileges and compromise the BIG-IP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2024
Two high-severity vulnerabilities in BIG-IP Next Central Manager can be exploited to gain admin control and create hidden accounts on any managed assets. F5 has addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-26026 and CVE-2024-21793, in BIG-IP Next Central Manager that can lead to device takeover. BIG-IP Next Central Manager (NCM) is a centralized management […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2023
Experts warn of a high-severity vulnerability that affects F5 BIG-IP that can lead to arbitrary code execution or DoS condition. A high-severity vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP, tracked as CVE-2023-22374, can be exploited to cause a DoS condition and potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. “A format string vulnerability exists in iControl SOAP that allows an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2022
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Rapid7 have identified several vulnerabilities and other potential security issues affecting F5 products. Rapid7 researchers discovered several vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices running a customized distribution of CentOS. The experts also discovered several bypasses of security controls that the security vendor F5 does not recognize as exploitable vulnerabilities. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2022
US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds critical CVE-2022-1388 flaw in F5 BIG-IP products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added critical CVE-2022-1388 flaw in F5 BIG-IP products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2022
Cybersecurity provider F5 released security patches to address tens of vulnerabilities affecting its products. Security and application delivery solutions provider F5 released its security notification to inform customers that it has released security updates from tens of vulnerabilities in its products. The company addressed a total of 43 vulnerabilities, the most severe one is a critical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2021
Cybersecurity experts warn of ongoing attacks aimed at exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ networking devices. Cybersecurity experts from NCC Group and Bad Packets security firm this week detected a wave of attacks exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22986, in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ networking devices. “After seeing lots […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2021
Security firm F5 announced the availability of patches for seven vulnerabilities in BIG-IP, four of which have been rated as “critical” severity. BIG-IP product family includes hardware, modularized software, and virtual appliances that run the F5 TMOS operating system and provides load balancing, firewall, access control, threat protection capabilities. The vendor has released security updates for seven […]
