CVE-2014-2927: F5 Arx

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The rsync daemon in F5 BIG-IP 11.6 before 11.6.0, 11.5.1 before HF3, 11.5.0 before HF4, 11.4.1 before HF4, 11.4.0 before HF7, 11.3.0 before HF9, and 11.2.1 before HF11 and Enterprise Manager 3.x before 3.1.1 HF2, when configured in failover mode, does not require authentication, which allows remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files via a cmi request to the ConfigSync IP address.

Affected products

  • F5 Arx: version 6.0.0 only; version 6.1.0 only; version 6.1.1 only; version 6.2.0 only; version 6.3.0 only; version 6.4.0 only
  • 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 10.2.3 only; version 10.2.4 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: version 11.3.0 only; version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.6.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Analytics: version 11.0.0 only; version 11.1.0 only; version 11.2.0 only; version 11.2.1 only; version 11.3.0 only; version 11.4.0 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.6.0 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 10.2.3 only; version 10.2.4 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 Policy Enforcement Manager: version 11.3.0 only; version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.6.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Protocol Security Module: 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 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 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-IQ Cloud: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.1.0 only; version 4.2.0 only; version 4.3.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IQ Device: version 4.2.0 only; version 4.3.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IQ Security: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.1.0 only; version 4.2.0 only; version 4.3.0 only
  • F5 Enterprise Manager: version 2.1.0 only; version 2.2.0 only; version 2.3.0 only; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.1.0 only; version 3.1.1 only
  • F5 Firepass: version 6.0.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 6.0.3 only; version 6.1.0 only; version 7.0.0 only

Published 2014-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.