🛡️ CVE-2025-52585 — big-ip-access-policy-manager

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-476 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

When a BIG-IP LTM Client SSL profile is configured on a virtual server with SSL Forward Proxy enabled and Anonymous Diffie-Hellman (ADH) ciphers enabled, undisclosed requests 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-2025-52585 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2025-52585 is recorded against 21 packages.

  • big-ip-access-policy-manager (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-advanced-firewall-manager (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-advanced-web-application-firewall (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-analytics (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-application-acceleration-manager (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-application-security-manager (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-application-visibility-and-reporting (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-automation-toolchain (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-carrier-grade-nat (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-container-ingress-services (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-ddos-hybrid-defender (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-domain-name-system (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-edge-gateway (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-fraud-protection-service (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-global-traffic-manager (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-link-controller (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-local-traffic-manager (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-policy-enforcement-manager (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-ssl-orchestrator (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-webaccelerator (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)
  • big-ip-websafe (from 17.1.0 up to 17.1.2.2)

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 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-476
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 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-advanced-firewall-manager 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-advanced-web-application-firewall 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-analytics 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-application-acceleration-manager 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-application-security-manager 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-application-visibility-and-reporting 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-automation-toolchain 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-carrier-grade-nat 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-container-ingress-services 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-ddos-hybrid-defender 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-domain-name-system 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-edge-gateway 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-fraud-protection-service 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-global-traffic-manager 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-link-controller 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-local-traffic-manager 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-policy-enforcement-manager 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-ssl-orchestrator 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-webaccelerator 17.1.0 17.1.2.2
big-ip-websafe 17.1.0 17.1.2.2

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