CVE-2021-23026: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BIG-IP version 16.0.x before 16.0.1.2, 15.1.x before 15.1.3, 14.1.x before 14.1.4.2, 13.1.x before 13.1.4.1, and all versions of 12.1.x and 11.6.x and all versions of BIG-IQ 8.x, 7.x, and 6.x are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks through iControl SOAP. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Affected products

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Ddos Hybrid Defender: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1
F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.4; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.4; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.2; from 16.0.0, up to and including 16.0.1.1
F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management: from 6.0.0, up to and including 6.1.0; from 7.0.0, up to and including 7.1.0; from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.1.0

Published 2021-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.