CVE-2021-22997

HIGH

F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management 6.0.0-7.x - Unauthenticated ElasticSearch Transport Service Access

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

On all 7.x and 6.x versions (fixed in 8.0.0), BIG-IQ HA ElasticSearch service does not implement any form of authentication for the clustering transport services, and all data used by ElasticSearch for transport is unencrypted. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Software Development (EoSD) are not evaluated.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K34074377

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 55.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-306
Status published
Products (1)
f5/big-iq_centralized_management 6.0.0 - 8.0.0
Published Mar 31, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026