CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5916

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2020-08-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-08-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

In BIG-IP versions 15.1.0-15.1.0.4 and 15.0.0-15.0.1.3 the Certificate Administrator user role and higher privileged roles can perform arbitrary file reads outside of the web root directory.

Affected configurations

• f5 big-ip access policy manager (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip access policy manager (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip analytics (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip analytics (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip application security manager (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip application security manager (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip ddos hybrid defender (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip ddos hybrid defender (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip domain name system (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip domain name system (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip fraud protection service (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip fraud protection service (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip global traffic manager (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip global traffic manager (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip link controller (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip link controller (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip local traffic manager (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip local traffic manager (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5) • f5 ssl orchestrator (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.4) • f5 ssl orchestrator (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.0.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References