CVE-2016-9257: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In F5 BIG-IP APM 12.0.0 through 12.1.2, non-authenticated users may be able to inject JavaScript into a request that will then be rendered and executed in the context of the Administrative user when the Administrative user is viewing the Access System Logs, allowing the non-authenticated user to carry out a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack against the Administrative user.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: version 12.0.0 only; version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only

Published 2017-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.