CVE-2020-5865: F5 Nginx Controller

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In versions prior to 3.3.0, the NGINX Controller is configured to communicate with its Postgres database server over unencrypted channels, making the communicated data vulnerable to interception via man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks.

Affected products

• F5 Nginx Controller: from 2.0.0, up to and including 2.9.0; from 3.0.0, before 3.3.0 (fixed in 3.3.0); version 1.0.1 only
• Netapp Cloud Backup: affected versions not specified

Published 2020-04-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.