CVE-2015-4040 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2015-4040?

CVE-2015-4040 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 17 Sep 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the configuration utility in F5 BIG-IP before 12.0.0 and Enterprise Manager 3.0.0 through 3.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to access arbitrary files in the web root via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4040?

It affects 14 products.

Products include F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, F5 Big-Ip Advanced Firewall Manager, F5 Big-Ip Analytics, F5 Big-Ip Application Acceleration Manager, F5 Big-Ip Application Security Manager, F5 Big-Ip Edge Gateway and 8 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4040?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-4040 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2015-4040 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4040 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager

• CVE-2023-46747 F5 BIG-IP Configuration Utility Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-1388 F5 BIG-IP Missing Authentication Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-22986 F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Centralized Management iControl REST Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-22991 F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management Microkernel Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-5902 F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-pr85-mf4f-rm29.