CVE-2017-15524

critical

Published 2017-12-19 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.1

Description

The Application Firewall Pack (AFP, aka Web Application Firewall) component on Kemp Load Balancer devices with software before 7.2.40.1 allows a Security Feature Bypass via an HTTP POST request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

94%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
kemptechnologies	web_application_firewall	`{"endIncluding":"7.2.40"}`

References

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

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