VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9251

high
Published 2017-05-09 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
8.8

Description

In F5 BIG-IP 12.0.0 through 12.1.2, an authenticated attacker may be able to cause an escalation of privileges through a crafted iControl REST connection.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: f5sirt@f5.com — https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K41107914

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_analytics12.0.0
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.0
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.1
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.2
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.0.0
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.0
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.1
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.2
f5big-ip_link_controller12.0.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.1
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.2
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_websafe12.0.0
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.0
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.1
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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