CVE-2020-5860: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.1.0.2, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.2, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1 and BIG-IQ 7.0.0, 6.0.0-6.1.0, and 5.2.0-5.4.0, in a High Availability (HA) network failover in Device Service Cluster (DSC), the failover service does not require a strong form of authentication and HA network failover traffic is not encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 11.5.2, up to and including 11.6.5; from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.2; from 15.0.0, up to and including 15.1.0
• F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management: from 5.2.0, up to and including 5.4.0; from 6.0.0, up to and including 6.1.0; version 7.0.0 only

Published 2020-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.