CVE-2023-45226

HIGH

F5 BIG-IP Next Service Proxy for Kubernetes - Use of Hard-coded Credentials in TMM Debug Containers

Title source: llm

Description

The BIG-IP SPK TMM (Traffic Management Module) f5-debug-sidecar and f5-debug-sshd containers contains hardcoded credentials that may allow an attacker with the ability to intercept traffic to impersonate the SPK Secure Shell (SSH) server on those containers. This is only exposed when ssh debug is enabled. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000135874

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4

EPSS 0.0057

EPSS Percentile 68.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-798

Status published

Products (1)

f5/big-ip_next_service_proxy_for_kubernetes 1.5.0

Published Oct 10, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026