CVE-2025-53868

BIG-IP SCP and SFTP vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.5 High
Published: Oct 15, 2025
Updated: Mar 4, 2026
Reserved: Oct 3, 2025

Description

When running in Appliance mode, a highly privileged authenticated attacker with access to SCP and SFTP may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions using undisclosed commands. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.5 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	f5
3.1	8.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	f5

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
BIG-IPF5	17.5.0 to before 17.5.1Affected 17.1.0 to before 17.1.3.1Affected 16.1.0 to before 16.1.6.1Affected 15.1.0 to before 15.1.10.8Affected

References

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000151902vendor-advisory

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