CVE-2024-21782

BIG-IP and BIG-IQ secure copy vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: Feb 14, 2024
Updated: May 12, 2025
Reserved: Feb 1, 2024

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

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	f5

Weaknesses

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
BIG-IPF5	17.1.0 to before 17.1.1Affected 16.1.0 to before 16.1.4Affected 15.1.0 to before 15.1.9Affected
BIG-IQF5	8.0.0 and laterAffectedfrom Hotfix-BIG-IQ-8.3.0.0.16.118-ENG.isoNot affected

References

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K98606833vendor-advisory

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