{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 18 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5516 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2015-5516 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2015-5516 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 20 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2015-5516 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2015-5516 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 20 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5516 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5516/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5516/index.md)","id":"CVE-2015-5516","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5516/index.md","name":"CVE-2015-5516","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-7pf4-6p49-f85p"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"F5 BIG-IP load balancer","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via memory consumption by sending crafted UDP packets to F5 BIG-IP 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Execution","id":"CVE-2020-5902","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-07-01"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"F5 BIG-IP APM Heap-based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2026-94127","kev_date_added":"2026-09-22","published":"2026-09-22"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"F5 BIG-IP Stack-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2025-53521","kev_date_added":"2026-03-27","published":"2025-10-15"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via memory consumption by sending crafted UDP packets to F5 BIG-IP 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