THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-2928
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-2928

Big Ip Webaccelerator vulnerability

CVSS
7.1
EPSS
39.1%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
The iControl API in F5 BIG-IP LTM, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and PSM 10.0.0 through 10.2.4 and 11.0.0 through 11.5.1, BIG-IP AAM 11.4.0 through 11.5.1, BIG-IP AFM and PEM 11.3.0 through 11.5.1, BIG-IP Analytics 11.0.0 through 11.5.1, BIG-IP Edge Gateway, WebAccelerator, WOM 10.1.0 through 10.2.4 and 11.0.0 through 11.3.0, Enterprise Manager 2.1.0 through 2.3.0 and 3.0.0 through 3.1.1, and BIG-IQ Cloud, Device, and Security 4.0.0 through 4.3.0 allows remote administrators to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the hostname element in a SOAP request.
Affected vendor
F5
Affected product
Big Ip Webaccelerator
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2014-05-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 39.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-2928

  • Confirm whether F5 Big Ip Webaccelerator is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-2928.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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