CVE-2016-7468: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An unauthenticated remote attacker may be able to disrupt services on F5 BIG-IP 11.4.1 - 11.5.4 devices with maliciously crafted network traffic. This vulnerability affects virtual servers associated with TCP profiles when the BIG-IP system's tm.tcpprogressive db variable value is set to non-default setting "enabled". The default value for the tm.tcpprogressive db variable is "negotiate". An attacker may be able to disrupt traffic or cause the BIG-IP system to fail over to another device in the device group.

Affected products

  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Analytics: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 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 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only; version 11.5.0 only; version 11.5.1 only; version 11.5.2 only; version 11.5.3 only; …
  • F5 BIG-IP Protocol Security Module: version 11.4.0 only; version 11.4.1 only

Published 2017-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.