CVE-2025-24312: F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When BIG-IP AFM is provisioned with IPS module enabled and protocol inspection profile is configured on a virtual server or firewall rule or policy, undisclosed traffic can cause an increase in CPU resource utilization.   Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager: from 15.1.0, before 15.1.10.6.0.11.6 (fixed in 15.1.10.6.0.11.6); from 16.1.0, before 16.1.5.2.0.7.5 (fixed in 16.1.5.2.0.7.5); from 17.1.0, before 17.1.2 (fixed in 17.1.2)
• F5 BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions: from 1.1.0, before 1.4.0 (fixed in 1.4.0)

Published 2025-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.