# CVE-2025-46265: F5OS vulnerability

> Remotely authenticated users may gain higher privilege roles due to improper authorization in F5OS.

- **Severity:** High 8.7 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 May 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5r29-8gxx-9wp7

## What is CVE-2025-46265?

CVE-2025-46265 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in F5OS - Appliance, published on 7 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

On F5OS, an improper authorization vulnerability exists where remotely authenticated users (LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+) may be authorized with higher privilege F5OS roles. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-46265?

It affects 2 products.


Products: F5 F5os-A, F5 F5os-C.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-46265?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-46265 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-46265 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-46265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in F5OS - Appliance

- [CVE-2025-36546](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36546/): F5OS Appliance Mode vulnerability (critical 9.2)
- [CVE-2025-57780](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-57780/): F5OS Vulnerability (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2025-61955](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-61955/): F5OS vulnerability (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2025-43878](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43878/): F5OS-A/C CLI vulnerability (high 8.3)
- [CVE-2022-41835](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-41835/): F5OS vulnerability CVE-2022-41835 (high 7.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-46265 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-46265 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in F5OS - Appliance, published on 7 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-46265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: F5OS - Appliance. 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-2025-46265/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46265/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-46265
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46265
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-46265

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-46265/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.