# CVE-2025-60016: BIG-IP SSL/TLS vulnerability

> Attackers can cause a denial of service by sending undisclosed traffic to virtual servers using specific SSL/TLS configurations.

- **Severity:** High 8.7 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2h32-w2mf-v4c7

## What is CVE-2025-60016?

CVE-2025-60016 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP, published on 15 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

When Diffie-Hellman (DH) group Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Brainpool curves are configured in an SSL profile's Cipher Rule or Cipher Group, and that profile is applied to a virtual server, undisclosed traffic can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to terminate.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Weakness: CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-60016?

It affects 2 products.


Products: F5 Big-Ip Next Cloud-Native Network Functions, F5 Big-Ip Next Service Proxy for Kubernetes.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-60016?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-60016 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-60016 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-60016 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IP

- [CVE-2026-59762](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-59762/): BIG-IP HTTP/2 vulnerability (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2025-54479](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54479/): BIG-IP PEM vulnerability (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2025-58120](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-58120/): BIG-IP Next (CNF, SPK, and Kubernetes) vulnerability (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2025-61974](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-61974/): BIG-IP SSL/TLS vulnerability (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2025-55670](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55670/): BIG-IP Next (CNF, SPK, and Kubernetes) vulnerability (high 7.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-60016 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-60016 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP, published on 15 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-60016 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: F5 BIG-IP. 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-2025-60016/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-60016/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-60016
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-60016
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-60016

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-60016/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.