CVE-2019-6609: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Platform dependent weakness. This issue only impacts iSeries platforms. On these platforms, in BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, FPS, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator) versions 14.0.0-14.1.0.1, 13.0.0-13.1.1.3, and 12.1.1 HF2-12.1.4, the secureKeyCapable attribute was not set which causes secure vault to not use the F5 hardware support to store the unit key. Instead the unit key is stored in plaintext on disk as would be the case for Z100 systems. Additionally this causes the unit key to be stored in UCS files taken on these platforms.

Affected products

  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Edge Gateway: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2); version 12.1.1 only
  • F5 BIG-IP Webaccelerator: from 12.1.2, before 12.1.4.1 (fixed in 12.1.4.1); from 13.0.0, before 13.1.1.4 (fixed in 13.1.1.4); from 14.0.0, before 14.1.0.2 (fixed in 14.1.0.2)
  • F5 BIG-IP WEBACCELERATOR12.1.1: version hf2 only

Published 2019-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.