CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-5529

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-07-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The svpn component of the F5 BIG-IP APM client prior to version 7.1.7 for Linux and Mac OS X runs as a privileged process and can allow an unprivileged user to assume super-user privileges on the local client host. A malicious local unprivileged user may gain knowledge of sensitive information, manipulate certain data, or disrupt service.

Affected configurations

• f5 big-ip access policy manager (>= 7.1.5 <= 7.1.6.1) • f5 big-ip access policy manager (>= 11.5.1 <= 11.5.6) • f5 big-ip access policy manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.3) • f5 big-ip access policy manager (>= 13.0.0 <= 13.1.0) • f5 big-ip edge (>= 7101 <= 7150)

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