CVE-2019-6601: F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In BIG-IP 13.0.0, 12.1.0-12.1.3.7, 11.6.1-11.6.3.2, or 11.5.1-11.5.8, the Application Acceleration Manager (AAM) wamd process used in processing of images and PDFs fails to drop group permissions when executing helper scripts.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 11.2.1, up to and including 11.5.8; from 11.6.1, up to and including 11.6.3; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.3; version 13.0.0 only

Published 2019-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.