Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-26835

Medium

Published: 05 May 2022

Published
05 May 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0050 66.6th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-26835 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager. Its CVSS base score is 4.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 33.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

On F5 BIG-IP 16.1.x versions prior to 16.1.2.2, 15.1.x versions prior to 15.1.5.1, 14.1.x versions prior to 14.1.4.6, 13.1.x versions prior to 13.1.5, and all versions of 12.1.x and 11.6.x, directory traversal vulnerabilities exist in undisclosed iControl REST endpoints and…

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TMOS Shell (tmsh) commands in F5 BIG-IP Guided Configuration, which may allow an authenticated attacker with at least resource administrator role privileges to read arbitrary files. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

f5
big-ip access policy manager
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
f5
big-ip advanced firewall manager
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
f5
big-ip analytics
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
f5
big-ip application acceleration manager
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
f5
big-ip application security manager
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
f5
big-ip domain name system
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
f5
big-ip fraud protection service
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
f5
big-ip global traffic manager
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
f5
big-ip link controller
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
f5
big-ip local traffic manager
11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.4, 11.6.5
+1 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References