CVE-2012-1493

high
Published 2012-07-09 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

F5 BIG-IP appliances 9.x before 9.4.8-HF5, 10.x before 10.2.4, 11.0.x before 11.0.0-HF2, and 11.1.x before 11.1.0-HF3, and Enterprise Manager before 2.1.0-HF2, 2.2.x before 2.2.0-HF1, and 2.3.x before 2.3.0-HF3, use a single SSH private key across different customers' installations and do not properly restrict access to this key, which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform SSH logins via the PubkeyAuthentication option.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/ssh/f5_bigip_known_privkey.rb

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/600/sol13600.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5big-ip_application_security_manager9.2.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager9.4.4
f5big-ip_application_security_manager9.4.5
f5big-ip_application_security_manager9.4.6
f5big-ip_application_security_manager9.4.7
f5big-ip_application_security_manager9.4.8
f5big-ip_application_security_manager10.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager10.0.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager10.2.3
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.1.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager9.2.2
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager9.4.8
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager10.0.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager10.2.3
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.0.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.1.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager9.0.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager9.4.8
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager10.0.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager10.2.3
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.0.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.1.0
f5enterprise_manager
f5enterprise_manager1.0
f5enterprise_manager2.0
f5enterprise_manager2.1.0
f5enterprise_manager2.2.0
f5enterprise_manager2.3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-255

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