🛡️ CVE-2026-42930 — big-ip-access-policy-manager

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/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: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-42930 is classified as CWE-35: Path Traversal: '.../...//'. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize '.../...//' (doubled triple dot slash) sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Affected software

CVE-2026-42930 is recorded against 21 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-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 13 May 2026 and last revised on 18 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:

• CVE-2026-40629 (7.5 High, published 13 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-32643 (8.7 High, published 13 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-42781 (6.5 Medium, published 13 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-41218 (7.5 High, published 13 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-39458 (7.5 High, published 13 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-41957 (8.8 High, published 13 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-40618 (7.5 High, published 13 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-24464 (6.8 Medium, published 13 May 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-35: Path Traversal: '.../...//') in other software:

• CVE-2026-59115 (9.9 Critical, published 7 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-66695 (6.5 Medium, published 6 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2025-59181 (published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-60835 (7.8 High, published 22 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-49779 (6.5 Medium, published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-7302 (9.5 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-42274 (8.0 High, published 25 Jun 2026)
• GHSA-phv5-334h-mxcw (9.5 Critical, published 23 Jun 2026)

Details

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