{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 22 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-42406 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-42406 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-42406 is a high-severity vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 13 May 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-42406 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-42406 is a high-severity vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 13 May 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-42406 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42406/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42406/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-42406","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42406/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-42406","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-j3w3-p4g3-436q"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"F5 BIG-IP BIG-IQ","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"An authenticated attacker with Certificate Manager role can modify configuration objects to execute arbitrary commands, leading to privilege 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leading to privilege escalation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-42406/"}