CVE-2020-5916: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In BIG-IP versions 15.1.0-15.1.0.4 and 15.0.0-15.0.1.3 the Certificate Administrator user role and higher privileged roles can perform arbitrary file reads outside of the web root directory.

Affected products

  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Ddos Hybrid Defender: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)
  • F5 SSL Orchestrator: from 15.0.0, before 15.0.1.4 (fixed in 15.0.1.4); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.0.5 (fixed in 15.1.0.5)

Published 2020-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.