CVE-2023-38419 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ iControl SOAP vulnerability

What is CVE-2023-38419?

CVE-2023-38419 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 2 Aug 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An authenticated attacker with guest privileges or higher can cause the iControl SOAP process to terminate by sending undisclosed requests.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Weakness: CWE-755

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-38419?

It affects 20 products.

Products include F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, F5 Big-Ip Advanced Firewall Manager, F5 Big-Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall, F5 Big-Ip Analytics, F5 Big-Ip Application Acceleration Manager, F5 Big-Ip Application Security Manager and 14 more.

How do I fix CVE-2023-38419?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-38419 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-38419 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38419 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-x3f8-jwjc-w444.