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Medium · 6.7 CVE-2024-21782 EUVD-2024-19396GHSA-45mm-4h6g-jrc9

BIG-IP and BIG-IQ secure copy vulnerability

Published Feb 14, 2024 · Updated May 12, 2025 · Assigned by f5

Description

BIG-IP or BIG-IQ Resource Administrators and Certificate Managers who have access to the secure copy (scp) utility but do not have access to Advanced shell (bash) can execute arbitrary commands with a specially crafted command string. This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-5873.

Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
F5 BIG-IP 17.1.0 – < 17.1.1, 16.1.0 – < 16.1.4, 15.1.0 – < 15.1.9 17.1.1
F5 BIG-IQ 8.0.0 —

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