VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5700

critical
Published 2016-10-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Virtual servers in F5 BIG-IP systems 11.5.0, 11.5.1 before HF11, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4 before HF2, 11.6.0 before HF8, 11.6.1 before HF1, 12.0.0 before HF4, and 12.1.0 before HF2, when configured with the HTTP Explicit Proxy functionality or SOCKS profile, allow remote attackers to modify the system configuration, read system files, and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_websafe11.6.0
f5big-ip_websafe11.6.1
f5big-ip_websafe12.0.0
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.1
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.2
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.3
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.4
f5big-ip_link_controller11.6.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.6.1
f5big-ip_link_controller12.0.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.