CVE-2025-61938

HIGH

F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF and ASM 17.1.0-17.1.3 - Denial of Service via Data Guard Protection Enforcement URL Length

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or ASM security policy is configured with a URL greater than 1024 characters in length for the Data Guard Protection Enforcement setting, either manually or through the automatic Policy Builder, the bd process can terminate repeatedly.  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/K000156624

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 23.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1284
Status published
Products (4)
f5/big-ip_advanced_web_application_firewall 17.5.0
f5/big-ip_advanced_web_application_firewall 17.1.0 - 17.1.3
f5/big-ip_application_security_manager 17.5.0
f5/big-ip_application_security_manager 17.1.0 - 17.1.3
Published Oct 15, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026