Hackers are actively exploiting vulnerability in widely-used BIG-IP

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Niranjan Maharajh
May 9, 2022
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The vulnerability affects F5’s BIG-IP, a line of appliances that organizations use as load balancers, firewalls, and for inspection and encryption of data passing into and out of networks.

F5 disclosed and patched a BIG-IP vulnerability that hackers can exploit to execute commands that run with root system privileges. The threat stems from a faulty authentication implementation of the iControl REST, a set of web-based programming interfaces for configuring and managing BIG-IP devices.

The severity of CVE-2022-1388 was rated at 9.8.

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