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F5: CVE-2024-21782: K98606833: BIG-IP and BIG-IQ scp vulnerability CVE-2024-21782

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Feb 14, 2024

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

BIG-IP or BIG-IQ Resource Administrators and Certificate Managers who have access to the secure copy (scp) utility but do not have access to Advanced Shell (bash) can execute arbitrary commands with a specially crafted command string. This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix forCVE-2020-5873.

Solution

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2024-21782
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-21782
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K98606833
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-19396
CWE-78
EUVD-EUVD-2024-19396

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