CVE-2023-38418: F5 Access Policy Manager Clients

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The BIG-IP Edge Client Installer on macOS does not follow best practices for elevating privileges during the installation process.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Affected products

• F5 Access Policy Manager Clients: from 7.2.3, before 7.2.4.3 (fixed in 7.2.4.3)
• F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager: from 13.1.0, up to and including 13.1.5; from 14.1.0, up to and including 14.1.5; from 15.1.0, up to and including 15.1.9; from 16.1.0, up to and including 16.1.3; from 17.0.0, up to and including 17.1.0

Published 2023-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.