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CVE-2019-6646

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

On BIG-IP 11.5.2-11.6.4 and Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, REST users with guest privileges may be able to escalate their privileges and run commands with admin privileges.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP APM: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• BIG-IP: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 Big-Ip Analytics: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (AAM): from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• BIG-IP ASM: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 BIG-IP DNS: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 Big-Ip Edge Gateway: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 Big-Ip Fraud Protection Service: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 Big-Ip Global Traffic Manager: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 Big-Ip Link Controller: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 BIG-IP (LTM): from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (PEM): from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 Big-Ip Webaccelerator: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.4; 12.0.0
• F5 Networks, Inc. Enterprise Manager: 3.1.1

References

• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K53990093
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K53990093

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