CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2022-34865 — F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager security vulnerability

Critical CVSS 9.1

In BIG-IP Versions 15.1.x before 15.1.6.1, 14.1.x before 14.1.5, and all versions of 13.1.x, Traffic Intelligence feeds, which use HTTPS, do not verify the remote endpoint identity, allowing for potential data poisoning. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.1 (3.1)
Published
2022-08-04
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Affected products

  • f5 / big-ip_access_policy_manager
  • f5 / big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager
  • f5 / big-ip_analytics
  • f5 / big-ip_application_acceleration_manager

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Matched remediation archetype

Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation

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Check exposure

  • Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
  • Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
  • Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.

Remediate safely

  • Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
  • Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
  • Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.

Authoritative sources

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