CVE-2018-5543: F5 BIG-IP Controller

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The F5 BIG-IP Controller for Kubernetes 1.0.0-1.5.0 (k8s-bigip-crtl) passes BIG-IP username and password as command line parameters, which may lead to disclosure of the credentials used by the container.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Controller: from 1.0.0, up to and including 1.5.0

Published 2018-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.