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Description

When a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or BIG-IP ASM Security Policy is configured with a JSON content profile that has a malformed JSON schema, and the security policy is applied to a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause the bd process to terminate.  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: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

HIGH: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

Product status

Default status
unknown

17.5.0 before 17.5.1.3
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/K000156621 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-54858)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-54858)

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