CVE-2024-45844 BIG-IP monitors vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-45844?

CVE-2024-45844 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 16 Oct 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

BIG-IP monitor functionality may allow an attacker to bypass access control restrictions, regardless of the port lockdown settings.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Weakness: CWE-306

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45844?

It affects 21 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 15 more.

How do I fix CVE-2024-45844?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-45844 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-45844 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-45844 exists.

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
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Also known as GHSA-gfc8-6qcc-3mvm.