CVE-2017-6145: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

iControl REST in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.0.0 through 12.1.2 and 13.0.0 includes a service to convert authorization BIGIPAuthCookie cookies to X-F5-Auth-Token tokens. This service does not properly re-validate cookies when making that conversion, allowing once-valid but now expired cookies to be converted to valid tokens.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only
• F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only
• F5 BIG-IP Analytics: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only
• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only
• F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only
• F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only
• F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only
• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only
• F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only
• F5 BIG-IP Websafe: version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 13.0.0 only

Published 2017-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.