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F5: CVE-2021-23016: K75540265: BIG-IP APM ACL bypass vulnerability CVE-2021-23016

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Apr 28, 2021

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An attacker may be able to bypass APM's internal restrictions and retrieve static content that is hosted within APM by sending specifically crafted requests to an APM Virtual Server.

Solution

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2021-23016
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-23016
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K75540265
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-10134
EUVD-EUVD-2021-10134

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