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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-03 | Published 2025-10-15 | Updated 2025-10-16 | Assigner f5




HIGH: 8.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

HIGH: 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

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

Product status

Default status
unknown

17.5.0 before 17.5.1
affected

17.1.0 before 17.1.3
affected

16.1.0 before 16.1.6.1
affected

15.1.0 before 15.1.10.8
affected

Credits

F5 finder

References

my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000151902 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-53868)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-53868)

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