CVE-2018-5524: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Under certain conditions, on F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5, 12.1.0-12.1.3.1, or 11.6.1 HF2-11.6.3.1, virtual servers configured with Client SSL or Server SSL profiles which make use of network hardware security module (HSM) functionality are exposed and impacted by this issue.

Affected products

  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1
  • F5 BIG-IP Webaccelerator: from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; from 13.0.0, up to and including 13.0.1

Published 2018-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.