CVE-2022-41770: F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In BIG-IP versions 17.0.x before 17.0.0.1, 16.1.x before 16.1.3.1, 15.1.x before 15.1.7, 14.1.x before 14.1.5.1, and all versions of 13.1.x, and BIG-IQ all versions of 8.x and 7.x, an authenticated iControl REST user can cause an increase in memory resource utilization, via undisclosed requests.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Analytics: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Domain Name System: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Link Controller: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, before 14.1.5.1 (fixed in 14.1.5.1); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.7 (fixed in 15.1.7); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.3.1 (fixed in 16.1.3.1); from 17.0.0, before 17.0.0.1 (fixed in 17.0.0.1)
• F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management: from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.2.0; version 7.1.0 only

Published 2022-10-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.