CVE-2025-53868 BIG-IP SCP and SFTP vulnerability

What is CVE-2025-53868?

CVE-2025-53868 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 15 Oct 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

When running in Appliance mode, a highly privileged authenticated attacker with access to SCP and SFTP may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions using undisclosed commands.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53868?

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-2025-53868?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53868 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-2025-53868 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53868 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-p36j-q4xc-rcrv.