BIG-IP Advanced WAF and ASM vulnerability

Description

On versions 17.0.x before 17.0.0.2, 16.1.x before 16.1.3.3, 15.1.0 before 15.1.8, 14.1.x before 14.1.5.3, and all versions of 13.1.x, when a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or BIG-IP ASM security policy is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause an increase in memory resource utilization. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs

Affected products

• F5 · BIG-IP

  • affected 17.0.0 – < 17.0.0.2
  • affected 16.1.0 – < 16.1.3.3
  • affected 15.1.0 – < 15.1.8
  • affected 14.1.0 – < 14.1.5.3
  • affected 13.1.0 – < *

References (1)

• https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K17542533 (opens in a new tab)x_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-2023-23552](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2023-23552.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-23552)

Record last updated 25 Mar 2025, 19:23 UTC.