CVE-2016-9247: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Under certain conditions for BIG-IP systems using a virtual server with an associated FastL4 profile and TCP analytics profile, a specific sequence of packets may cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to restart.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• F5 BIG-IP Analytics: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• F5 BIG-IP Websafe: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only

Published 2017-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.