CVE-2026-42780

MEDIUM

BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator - Authenticated Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Write

Title source: llm

Description

A directory traversal vulnerability exists in BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator that allows an authenticated attacker with high privilege to overwrite, delete or corrupt arbitrary local files. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory patch

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000149743

Scores

CVSS v3 4.9

EPSS 0.0032

EPSS Percentile 55.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-22

Status published

Products (9)

F5/BIG-IP 16.1.0

F5/BIG-IP 17.1.0 - 17.1.3.1

F5/BIG-IP 17.5.0 - 17.5.1.5

F5/BIG-IP 21.0.0 - 21.0.0.1

F5/BIG-IP 21.1.0

F5/SSL Orchestrator 11.0 - 11.4.1

F5/SSL Orchestrator 12.0 - 12.3.2

F5/SSL Orchestrator 13.0 - 13.1.3

F5/SSL Orchestrator 14.0

Published May 13, 2026

Tracked Since May 13, 2026