CVE-2020-5890: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.3, and 12.1.0-12.1.5.1 and BIG-IQ 5.2.0-7.1.0, when creating a QKView, credentials for binding to LDAP servers used for remote authentication of the BIG-IP administrative interface will not fully obfuscate if they contain whitespace.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5.1; from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.3.3; from 14.0.0, before 14.1.2.4 (fixed in 14.1.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.1.0.2 (fixed in 15.1.0.2)
• 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 2020-04-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.