CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-15331

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-12-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

On BIG-IP AAM 13.0.0 or 12.1.0-12.1.3.7, the dcdb_convert utility used by BIG-IP AAM fails to drop group permissions when executing helper scripts, which could be used to leverage attacks against the BIG-IP system.

Affected configurations

• f5 big-ip application acceleration manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.3) • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager 13.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References