🛡️ CVE-2025-48008 — big-ip-access-policy-manager

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

When a TCP profile with Multipath TCP (MPTCP) enabled is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed traffic along with conditions beyond the attacker's control can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to terminate.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-48008 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2025-48008 is recorded against 23 packages.

  • big-ip-access-policy-manager (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-advanced-firewall-manager (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-advanced-web-application-firewall (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-analytics (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-application-acceleration-manager (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-application-security-manager (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-application-visibility-and-reporting (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-automation-toolchain (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-carrier-grade-nat (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-container-ingress-services (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-ddos-hybrid-defender (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-domain-name-system (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-edge-gateway (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-fraud-protection-service (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-global-traffic-manager (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-link-controller (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-local-traffic-manager (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-next-cloud-native-network-functions (from 1.1.0 up to 1.4.1)
  • big-ip-next-service-proxy-for-kubernetes (from 1.7.0 up to 1.9.2)
  • big-ip-policy-enforcement-manager (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-ssl-orchestrator (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-webaccelerator (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)
  • big-ip-websafe (from 16.1.0 up to 16.1.6)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 October 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

my.f5.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-10-15
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
big-ip-access-policy-manager 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-advanced-firewall-manager 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-advanced-web-application-firewall 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-analytics 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-application-acceleration-manager 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-application-security-manager 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-application-visibility-and-reporting 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-automation-toolchain 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-carrier-grade-nat 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-container-ingress-services 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-ddos-hybrid-defender 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-domain-name-system 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-edge-gateway 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-fraud-protection-service 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-global-traffic-manager 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-link-controller 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-local-traffic-manager 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-next-cloud-native-network-functions 1.1.0 1.4.1
big-ip-next-service-proxy-for-kubernetes 1.7.0 1.9.2
big-ip-policy-enforcement-manager 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-ssl-orchestrator 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-webaccelerator 16.1.0 16.1.6
big-ip-websafe 16.1.0 16.1.6

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