VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5021

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Published 2016-06-24 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
4.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.9

Description

The iControl REST service in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, Link Controller, and PEM 11.5.x before 11.5.4, 11.6.x before 11.6.1, and 12.x before 12.0.0 HF3; BIG-IP DNS 12.x before 12.0.0 HF3; BIG-IP GTM 11.5.x before 11.5.4 and 11.6.x before 11.6.1; BIG-IQ Cloud and Security 4.0.0 through 4.5.0; BIG-IQ Device 4.2.0 through 4.5.0; BIG-IQ ADC 4.5.0; BIG-IQ Centralized Management 4.6.0; and BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0 allows remote authenticated administrators to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
59%
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-iq_application_delivery_controller4.5.0
f5big-iq_cloud_and_orchestration1.0.0
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_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.0.0
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_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.0.0
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_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.6.0
f5big-iq_security4.0.0
f5big-iq_security4.1.0
f5big-iq_security4.2.0
f5big-iq_security4.3.0
f5big-iq_security4.4.0
f5big-iq_security4.5.0
f5big-iq_cloud4.0.0
f5big-iq_cloud4.1.0
f5big-iq_cloud4.2.0
f5big-iq_cloud4.3.0
f5big-iq_cloud4.4.0
f5big-iq_cloud4.5.0
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_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.0.0
f5big-iq_centralized_management4.6.0
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.0.0
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.0
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.1
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.2
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.3
f5big-ip_analytics11.6.0
f5big-ip_analytics12.0.0
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_controller11.6.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.0.0
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_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.0.0
f5big-iq_device4.2.0
f5big-iq_device4.3.0
f5big-iq_device4.4.0
f5big-iq_device4.5.0
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_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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