VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5745

critical
Published 2016-10-05 · 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
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

F5 BIG-IP LTM systems 11.x before 11.2.1 HF16, 11.3.x, 11.4.x before 11.4.1 HF11, 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 allow remote attackers to modify or extract system configuration files via vectors involving NAT64.

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_local_traffic_manager11.0.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.1.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.2.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.3.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.4.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.4.1
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

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.