CVE-2014-2928: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 40.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 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 2014-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.