CVE-2016-9245: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In F5 BIG-IP systems 12.1.0 - 12.1.2, malicious requests made to virtual servers with an HTTP profile can cause the TMM to restart. The issue is exposed with BIG-IP APM profiles, regardless of settings. The issue is also exposed with the non-default "Normalize URI" configuration options used in iRules and/or BIG-IP LTM policies. 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 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only
• F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only
• F5 BIG-IP Analytics: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only
• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only
• F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only
• F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only
• F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only
• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only
• F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only
• F5 BIG-IP Websafe: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only

Published 2017-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.