CVE-2022-31473 BIG-IP APM Appliance mode vulnerability CVE-2022-31473

What is CVE-2022-31473?

CVE-2022-31473 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 4 Aug 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In BIG-IP Versions 16.1.x before 16.1.1 and 15.1.x before 15.1.4, when running in Appliance mode, an authenticated attacker may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions due to a directory traversal vulnerability in an undisclosed page within iApps. A successful exploit can allow the attacker to cross a security boundary. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-31473?

It affects 1 product.

Products include F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2022-31473?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-31473 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-2022-31473 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-31473 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-x49w-p2mp-8q2x.