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🛡️ CVE-2026-42058 — big-ip-access-policy-manager

🟡 CVSS 4.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-732 NVD
4.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An authenticated attacker's undisclosed requests to BIG-IP iControl REST can lead to an information leak of BIG-IP local user account names.  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 low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-42058 is classified as CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. A sensitive resource is assigned permissions that let unintended actors read or modify it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-42058 is recorded against 21 packages.

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

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2026 and last revised on 23 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

my.f5.com

Other advisories for this package

big-ip-access-policy-manager has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-732
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
big-ip-access-policy-manager
big-ip-advanced-firewall-manager
big-ip-advanced-web-application-firewall
big-ip-analytics
big-ip-application-acceleration-manager
big-ip-application-security-manager
big-ip-application-visibility-and-reporting
big-ip-automation-toolchain
big-ip-carrier-grade-nat
big-ip-container-ingress-services
big-ip-ddos-hybrid-defender
big-ip-domain-name-system
big-ip-edge-gateway
big-ip-fraud-protection-service
big-ip-global-traffic-manager
big-ip-link-controller
big-ip-local-traffic-manager
big-ip-policy-enforcement-manager
big-ip-ssl-orchestrator
big-ip-webaccelerator
big-ip-websafe

References

Mitigation, Vendor Advisory https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000160903

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