🛡️ CVE-2025-48500 — big-ip-access-policy-manager

🟠 CVSS 7.3 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-353 NVD
7.3
CVSS Score
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Description

A missing file integrity check vulnerability exists on MacOS F5 VPN browser client installer that may allow a local, authenticated attacker with access to the local file system to replace it with a malicious package installer. 

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 with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-48500 is classified as CWE-353: Missing Support for Integrity Check. The product uses a transmission protocol that does not include a mechanism for verifying the integrity of the data during transmission, such as a checksum.

Affected software

CVE-2025-48500 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • big-ip-access-policy-manager (from 17.5.0 up to 17.5.1.3)
  • big-ip-access-policy-manager-client

Timeline and source

Published on 13 August 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 7.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-353
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-08-13
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
big-ip-access-policy-manager 17.5.0 17.5.1.3
big-ip-access-policy-manager-client

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