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CVE-2012-1493

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 63.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

F5 BIG-IP appliances 9.x before 9.4.8-HF5, 10.x before 10.2.4, 11.0.x before 11.0.0-HF2, and 11.1.x before 11.1.0-HF3, and Enterprise Manager before 2.1.0-HF2, 2.2.x before 2.2.0-HF1, and 2.3.x before 2.3.0-HF3, use a single SSH private key across different customers' installations and do not properly restrict access to this key, which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform SSH logins via the PubkeyAuthentication option.

Affected products

• F5 Big-Ip 1000: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 11000: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 11050: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 1500: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 1600: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 2400: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 3400: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 3410: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 3600: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 3900: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 4100: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 5100: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 5110: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 6400: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 6800: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 6900: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 8400: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 8800: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 8900: all versions
• F5 Big-Ip 8950: all versions
• BIG-IP ASM: 9.2.0, 9.2.0-hf4, 9.4.4, 9.4.5, 9.4.6, 9.4.7 (+8)
• F5 Big-Ip Global Traffic Manager: 9.2.2, 9.4.8-hf4, 10.0.0, 10.2.3-hf1, 11.0.0, 11.0.0-hf1 (+2)
• F5 BIG-IP (LTM): 9.0.0, 9.4.8-hf4, 10.0.0, 10.2.3-hf1, 11.0.0, 11.0.0-hf1 (+2)
• F5 Networks, Inc. Enterprise Manager: 1.0, 2.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.0-hf1, 2.2.0, 2.3.0 (+1)
• F5 Tmos: 2.0, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 (+39)

References

• http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/600/sol13600.html
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/13/f5_kit_metasploit_exploit/
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/ssh/f5_bigip_known_privkey.rb
• https://www.trustmatta.com/advisories/MATTA-2012-002.txt
• http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/600/sol13600.html
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/13/f5_kit_metasploit_exploit/
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/ssh/f5_bigip_known_privkey.rb
• https://www.trustmatta.com/advisories/MATTA-2012-002.txt

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