CVE-2025-43878 (GCVE-0-2025-43878)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-07 22:04
Modified
2025-05-08 13:00
Severity ?
6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
8.3 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-149 - Improper Neutralization of Quoting Syntax
  • CWE-1286 - Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
Summary
When running in Appliance mode, an authenticated attacker assigned the Administrator or Resource Administrator role may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions utilizing system diagnostics tcpdump command utility on a F5OS-C/A system.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
F5 F5OS - Appliance Version: 1.5.1   < 1.8.0
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