vulnerability

F5 Networks: CVE-2020-5916: K29923912: BIG-IP Configuration utility vulnerability CVE-2020-5916

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 25, 2020
Added
Aug 26, 2020
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

In BIG-IP versions 15.1.0-15.1.0.4 and 15.0.0-15.0.1.3 the Certificate Administrator user role and higher privileged roles can perform arbitrary file reads outside of the web root directory.

Solution

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
Title
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