CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2021-23016 — F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.3

On BIG-IP APM versions 15.1.x before 15.1.3, 14.1.x before 14.1.4.1, 13.1.x before 13.1.4, and all versions of 16.0.x, 12.1.x, and 11.6.x, an attacker may be able to bypass APM's internal restrictions and retrieve static content that is hosted within APM by sending specifically crafted requests to an APM Virtual Server. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.3 (3.1)
Published
2021-05-10
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application

Affected products

  • f5 / big-ip_access_policy_manager

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Matched remediation archetype

General vulnerability remediation

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Check exposure

  • Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
  • Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
  • Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.

Remediate safely

  • Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
  • Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
  • Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.

Authoritative sources

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