CVE-2025-61990 TMM vulnerability
Attackers can cause a denial of service by sending undisclosed traffic to the Traffic Management Microkernel on multi-bladed F5 BIG-IP platforms.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-61990?
CVE-2025-61990 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, 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 using a multi-bladed platform with more than one blade, 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-415
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-61990?
It affects 24 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 18 more.
How do I fix CVE-2025-61990?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-61990 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-61990 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-61990 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
- CVE-2022-1388 F5 BIG-IP Missing Authentication
- CVE-2021-22986 F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Centralized Management iControl REST Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2021-22991 F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management Microkernel Buffer Overflow
- CVE-2020-5902 F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) Remote Code Execution
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r883-xfpj-rcw8.