CVE-2024-21782 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ secure copy vulnerability

Medium 6.7 Published 14 Feb 2024 Updated 12 May 2025

Administrators with scp access can execute arbitrary commands via crafted strings, bypassing shell restrictions in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: An administrator
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-21782?

CVE-2024-21782 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 14 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

BIG-IP or BIG-IQ Resource Administrators and Certificate Managers who have access to the secure copy (scp) utility but do not have access to Advanced shell (bash) can execute arbitrary commands with a specially crafted command string. This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-5873.

Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-21782?

It affects 12 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 Domain Name System and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2024-21782?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-21782 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2024-21782 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-45mm-4h6g-jrc9.