Vulnerability · Published Feb 14, 2024 · Assigned by f5

CVE-2024-21782BIG-IP and BIG-IQ secure copy vulnerability

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity OS command injection in BIG-IP from F5. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.7Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
F5	BIG-IP	17.1.0 – before 17.1.116.1.0 – before 16.1.415.1.0 – before 15.1.9
F5	BIG-IQ	8.0.0 – before *

Weakness: CWE-78 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K98606833 vendor-advisory