CVE-2025-43878

MEDIUM

F5OS-A 1.5.1-1.8.0 and F5OS-C 1.6.0-1.6.2 - Authenticated Appliance Mode Restriction Bypass via tcpdump Utility

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When running in Appliance mode, an authenticated attacker assigned the Administrator or Resource Administrator role may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions utilizing system diagnostics tcpdump command utility on a F5OS-C/A system.  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/K000139502

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 4.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-1286 CWE-149
Status published
Products (2)
f5/f5os-a 1.5.1 - 1.8.0
f5/f5os-c 1.6.0 - 1.6.2
Published May 07, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026