CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-5546

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-08-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-732

Description

The svpn and policyserver components of the F5 BIG-IP APM client prior to version 7.1.7.1 for Linux and macOS runs as a privileged process and can allow an unprivileged user to get ownership of files owned by root on the local client host. A malicious local unprivileged user may gain knowledge of sensitive information, manipulate certain data, or assume super-user privileges on the local client host.

Affected configurations

• f5 big-ip access policy manager client (>= 7.1.5 <= 7.1.7) • f5 big-ip access policy manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References