CVE-2025-60016: F5 BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions

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

When Diffie-Hellman (DH) group Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Brainpool curves are configured in an SSL profile's Cipher Rule or Cipher Group, and that profile is applied to a virtual server, undisclosed traffic can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to terminate.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions: from 1.1.0, before 1.4.0 (fixed in 1.4.0)
• F5 BIG-IP Next Service Proxy For Kubernetes: from 1.7.0, up to and including 1.9.2

Published 2025-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.