CVE-2018-5516

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CVSS 3.0

4.7 medium

EPSS

<1%p24

Published

May 2, 2018 (May 2, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5, 12.1.0-12.1.2, or 11.2.1-11.6.3.1, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.0.0-5.4.0 or 4.6.0, BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0, or F5 iWorkflow 2.0.2-2.3.0, authenticated users granted TMOS Shell (tmsh) access can access objects on the file system which would normally be disallowed by tmsh restrictions. This allows for authenticated, low privileged attackers to exfiltrate objects on the file system which should not be allowed.

Vendors: f5
Products: big-ip local traffic manager, big-ip application acceleration manager, big-ip advanced firewall manager, big-ip analytics, big-ip access policy manager, big-ip application security manager, big-ip edge gateway, big-ip global traffic manager, big-ip link controller, big-ip policy enforcement manager, big-ip webaccelerator, big-ip websafe
Weakness: CWE-732
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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