Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-34019

F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager 17.1.0 – 17.1.2

Published
13 May 2026
Modified
29 June 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v4 6.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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 0.0029 22th percentile
Risk Priority 39 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-34019 is a medium-severity Insufficient Resource Pool (CWE-410) vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499); ranked at the 22th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-6 (Resource Availability) and AC-10 (Concurrent Session Control) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

When Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is configured in Static and Dynamic routing protocols, undisclosed traffic can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to stop processing BFD packets and cause the configured routing protocol to fail over. Note: Software versions which…

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have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service Impact
Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users.
T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood Impact
Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications.
T1499.002 Service Exhaustion Flood Impact
Adversaries may target the different network services provided by systems to conduct a denial of service (DoS).
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

f5
big-ip access policy manager
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
f5
big-ip advanced firewall manager
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
f5
big-ip advanced web application firewall
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
f5
big-ip analytics
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
f5
big-ip application acceleration manager
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
f5
big-ip application security manager
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
f5
big-ip application visibility and reporting
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
f5
big-ip automation toolchain
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
f5
big-ip carrier-grade nat
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
f5
big-ip container ingress services
17.5.0 · 17.1.0 — 17.1.2 · 16.1.0 — 16.1.6
+11 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 5 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V15.1.3
  • V17.1.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SC-6 directly requires allocation of resources by priority or other means to protect availability against demand spikes.

AC-10 limits concurrent sessions per user, structurally capping how much of the pool any single actor can consume.

SC-5 reduces the impact of resource-exhaustion DoS events without addressing pool sizing itself.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.IR-04 full match
prevents

Directly requires maintaining adequate resource capacity to ensure availability, which prevents exhaustion attacks from insufficient pools.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

degrades

Capacity management directly addresses sizing resource pools to handle peak demand and prevent exhaustion.

mitigates

Redundancy of processing facilities mitigates resource exhaustion by providing failover capacity.

prevents

Secure architecture principles include designing adequate resource allocation and limits.

finds

Security testing can detect insufficient resource pools before deployment.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

Oracle Linux 8 (1 rule)
  • V-248553 OL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic are terminated after 10 minutes of becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-410
Oracle Linux 9 (2 rules)
  • V-271709 OL 9 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic terminate after becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-410
  • V-271710 OL 9 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic are terminated after 10 minutes of becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-410
RHEL 8 (2 rules)
  • V-230244 RHEL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic terminate after becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-410
  • V-244525 RHEL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic are terminated after 10 minutes of becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-410

References