# CVE-2025-23413: BIG-IP Next Central Manager vulnerability

> Attackers with log access can view sensitive user data logged during local authentication in BIG-IP Next Central Manager.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.7 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 12 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vjw2-gg68-3j52

## What is CVE-2025-23413?

CVE-2025-23413 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP Next Central Manager, published on 5 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

When users log in through the webUI or API using local authentication, BIG-IP Next Central Manager may log sensitive information in the pgaudit log files. 

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

Weakness: CWE-532 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23413?

It affects 1 product.


Products: F5 Big-Ip Next Central Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-23413?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-23413 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-23413 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23413 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IP Next Central Manager

- [CVE-2024-39809](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39809/): BIG-IP Next Central Manager vulnerability (high 8.9)
- [CVE-2024-21793](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21793/): BIG-IP Central Manager OData Injection Vulnerability (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-26026](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26026/): BIG-IP Central Manager SQL Injection (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-32049](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32049/): BIG-IP Next Central Manager vulnerability (high 7.4)
- [CVE-2025-24319](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24319/): BIG-IP Next Central Manager vulnerability (high 7.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-23413 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-23413 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP Next Central Manager, published on 5 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23413 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: F5 BIG-IP Next Central Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23413/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23413/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23413
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23413
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-23413

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23413/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.