CVE-2022-23023: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

On BIG-IP version 16.1.x before 16.1.2.1, 15.1.x before 15.1.5, 14.1.x before 14.1.4.5, and all versions of 13.1.x and 12.1.x, and BIG-IQ all versions of 8.x and 7.x, undisclosed requests by an authenticated iControl REST user can cause an increase in memory resource utilization. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Affected products

  • F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Ddos Hybrid Defender: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator: from 12.1.0, up to and including 12.1.5; 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 15.1.4; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.2
  • F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management: from 7.0.0, up to and including 7.1.0; from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.1.0

Published 2022-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.