CVE-2015-4040

medium

Published 2015-09-17 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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

Directory traversal vulnerability in the configuration utility in F5 BIG-IP before 12.0.0 and Enterprise Manager 3.0.0 through 3.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to access arbitrary files in the web root via unspecified vectors.

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-38448 webapps hardware

Karn Ganeshen · 2015-10-13

F5 Big-IP 10.2.4 Build 595.0 Hotfix HF3 - Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
f5	enterprise_manager	`3.0.0`
f5	enterprise_manager	`3.1.0`
f5	enterprise_manager	`3.1.1`
f5	big-ip_access_policy_manager	`{"endIncluding":"11.6.0"}`
f5	big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager	`{"endIncluding":"11.6.0"}`
f5	big-ip_analytics	`{"endIncluding":"11.6.0"}`
f5	big-ip_application_acceleration_manager	`{"endIncluding":"11.6.0"}`
f5	big-ip_application_security_manager	`{"endIncluding":"11.6.0"}`
f5	big-ip_edge_gateway	`{"endIncluding":"11.3.0"}`
f5	big-ip_global_traffic_manager	`{"endIncluding":"11.3.0"}`
f5	big-ip_link_controller	`{"endIncluding":"11.3.0"}`
f5	big-ip_local_traffic_manager	`{"endIncluding":"11.6.0"}`
f5	big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager	`{"endIncluding":"11.3.0"}`
f5	big-ip_protocol_security_module	`{"endIncluding":"11.3.0"}`
f5	big-ip_wan_optimization_manager	`{"endIncluding":"11.3.0"}`
f5	big-ip_webaccelerator	`{"endIncluding":"11.3.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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

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