On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.0.1, 12.1.0-12.1.3.3, 11.6.0-11.6.3.1, or 11.5.1-11.5.6, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ Centralized Management…

Description

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.0.1, 12.1.0-12.1.3.3, 11.6.0-11.6.3.1, or 11.5.1-11.5.6, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.0.0-5.1.0, BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0, or F5 iWorkflow 2.1.0-2.3.0 the big3d process does not irrevocably minimize group privileges at start up.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.

Weakness

• Privilege escalation
• CWE-732 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-732 and its CVEs

Affected products

• F5 Networks, Inc. · BIG-IP (DNS, GTM)

  • affected 13.0.0-13.0.1
  • affected 12.1.0-12.1.3.3
  • affected 11.6.0-11.6.3.1
  • affected 11.5.1-11.5.6

• F5 Networks, Inc. · Enterprise Manager

  • affected 3.1.1

• F5 Networks, Inc. · BIG-IQ Centralized Management

  • affected 5.0.0-5.1.0

• F5 Networks, Inc. · BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration

  • affected 1.0.0

• F5 Networks, Inc. · F5 iWorkflow

  • affected 2.1.0-2.3.0

References (4)

• 1041340 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K82038789 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 104920 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1041341 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2018-5540](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-5540.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-5540)

Record last updated 17 Sept 2024, 00:36 UTC.