CVE-2012-2997

medium

Published 2014-01-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in sam/admin/vpe2/public/php/server.php in F5 BIG-IP 10.0.0 through 10.2.4 and 11.0.0 through 11.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38233 remote hardware verified

anonymous · 2013-01-21

F5 Networks BIG-IP - XML External Entity Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
f5	big-ip_configuration_utility	`10.0.0`
f5	big-ip_configuration_utility	`10.2.4`
f5	big-ip_configuration_utility	`11.0.0`
f5	big-ip_configuration_utility	`11.2.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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