Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-61938

High

Published: 15 October 2025

Published
15 October 2025
Modified
21 October 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.4th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-61938 is a high-severity Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input (CWE-1284) vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

When a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or ASM security policy is configured with a URL greater than 1024 characters in length for the Data Guard Protection Enforcement setting, either manually or through the automatic Policy Builder, the bd process can terminate…

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repeatedly. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

CWE(s)
CWE-1284

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

f5
big-ip advanced web application firewall
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.3
f5
big-ip application security manager
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References