CVE-2020-27715: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

On BIG-IP 15.1.0-15.1.0.5 and 14.1.0-14.1.3, crafted TLS request to the BIG-IP management interface via port 443 can cause high (~100%) CPU utilization by the httpd daemon.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 14.1.0, before 14.1.3.1 (fixed in 14.1.3.1); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.1 (fixed in 15.1.1)

Published 2020-12-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.