CVE-2018-15331: F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

On BIG-IP AAM 13.0.0 or 12.1.0-12.1.3.7, the dcdb_convert utility used by BIG-IP AAM fails to drop group permissions when executing helper scripts, which could be used to leverage attacks against the BIG-IP system.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; version 13.0.0 only

Published 2018-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.