CVE-2016-5021: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The iControl REST service in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, Link Controller, and PEM 11.5.x before 11.5.4, 11.6.x before 11.6.1, and 12.x before 12.0.0 HF3; BIG-IP DNS 12.x before 12.0.0 HF3; BIG-IP GTM 11.5.x before 11.5.4 and 11.6.x before 11.6.1; BIG-IQ Cloud and Security 4.0.0 through 4.5.0; BIG-IQ Device 4.2.0 through 4.5.0; BIG-IQ ADC 4.5.0; BIG-IQ Centralized Management 4.6.0; and BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0 allows remote authenticated administrators to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; version 11.6.0 only; version 12.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; version 11.6.0 only; version 12.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Analytics: version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; version 11.6.0 only; version 12.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; version 11.6.0 only; version 12.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; version 11.6.0 only; version 12.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: version 12.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; version 11.6.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; version 11.6.0 only; version 12.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; version 11.6.0 only; version 12.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; version 11.6.0 only; version 12.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IQ Application Delivery Controller: version 4.5.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management: version 4.6.0 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; version 4.4.0 only; version 4.5.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IQ Cloud And Orchestration: version 1.0.0 only
  • F5 BIG-IQ Device: version 4.2.0 only; version 4.3.0 only; version 4.4.0 only; version 4.5.0 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; version 4.4.0 only; version 4.5.0 only

Published 2016-06-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.