CVE-2013-6016: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, APM, ASM, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, and WOM 10.0.0 through 10.2.2 and 11.0.0; Analytics 11.0.0; PSM 9.4.0 through 9.4.8, 10.0.0 through 10.2.4, and 11.0.0 through 11.4.1; and WebAccelerator 9.4.0 through 9.4.8, 10.0.0 through 10.2.4, and 11.0.0 through 11.3.0 might change a TCP connection to the ESTABLISHED state before receiving the ACK packet, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGFPE or assertion failure and TMM restart) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: version 10.1.0 only; version 10.2.0 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; version 11.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.1.0 only; version 10.2.0 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway: version 10.1.0 only; version 10.2.0 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; version 11.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.1.0 only; version 10.2.0 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.1.0 only; version 10.2.0 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.1.0 only; version 10.2.0 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Protocol Security Module: version 9.4.5 only; version 9.4.6 only; version 9.4.7 only; version 9.4.8 only; version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager: version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.1.0 only; version 10.2.0 only; version 10.2.1 only; version 10.2.2 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Webaccelerator: version 9.4.0 only; version 9.4.1 only; version 9.4.2 only; version 9.4.3 only; version 9.4.4 only; version 9.4.5 only; …

Published 2013-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.