{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 14 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-5902 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021, including in ransomware campaigns.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5902 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 3 May 2022.","what":"CVE-2020-5902 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 1 Jul 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-5902 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-5902 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 1 Jul 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-5902 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021, including in ransomware campaigns.\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-2020-5902/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5902/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-5902","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5902/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-5902","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-2859-2hr6-f86v"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"F5 BIG-IP","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can achieve remote code execution on F5 BIG-IP devices via path traversal in the TMUI Configuration 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Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"In BIG-IP versions 15.0.0-15.1.0.3, 14.1.0-14.1.2.5, 13.1.0-13.1.3.3, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.6.1-11.6.5.1, the Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI), also referred to as the Configuration utility, has a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in undisclosed pages.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":3,"first_seen":"2020-06-30","github_poc":55,"max_poc_stars":374,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":1,"refs":[{"date":"2020-07-05T16:38:32Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/jas502n/CVE-2020-5902","stars":374,"title":"CVE-2020-5902 BIG-IP"},{"date":"2020-07-05T17:01:27Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/yassineaboukir/CVE-2020-5902","stars":70,"title":"Proof of concept for CVE-2020-5902"},{"date":"2020-07-10T15:33:00Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/theLSA/f5-bigip-rce-cve-2020-5902","stars":62,"title":"F5 BIG-IP RCE CVE-2020-5902 automatic check 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Bypass","id":"CVE-2023-46747","kev_date_added":"2023-10-31","published":"2023-10-26"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"F5 BIG-IP Missing Authentication","id":"CVE-2022-1388","kev_date_added":"2022-05-10","published":"2022-05-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Centralized Management iControl REST Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2021-22986","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-03-31"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management Microkernel Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2021-22991","kev_date_added":"2022-01-18","published":"2021-03-31"},{"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 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