On BIG-IP 14.0.0-14.1.0.1, 13.0.0-13.1.1.4, 12.1.0-12.1.4, 11.6.1-11.6.3.4, and 11.5.2-11.5.8, a user with the Resource Administrator role…

Description

On BIG-IP 14.0.0-14.1.0.1, 13.0.0-13.1.1.4, 12.1.0-12.1.4, 11.6.1-11.6.3.4, and 11.5.2-11.5.8, a user with the Resource Administrator role is able to overwrite sensitive low-level files (such as /etc/passwd) using SFTP to modify user permissions, without Advanced Shell access. This is contrary to our definition for the Resource Administrator (RA) role restrictions.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• Privilege Escalation
• CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs

Affected products

• F5 · BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, FPS, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator)

  • affected 14.0.0-14.1.0.1
  • affected 13.0.0-13.1.1.4
  • affected 12.1.0-12.1.4
  • affected 11.6.1-11.6.3.4
  • affected 11.5.2-11.5.8

References (3)

• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K38941195 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 108186 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/F5/CVE-2019-6617.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2019-6617](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2019-6617.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2019-6617)

Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 20:23 UTC.