Number: AV16-159
Date: 05 October 2016
Purpose
The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to a Security Advisory released by F5 for its BIG-IP products.
Assessment
A recently released F5 Security Advisory has announced a critical vulnerability affecting some of its BIG-IP products. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to modify system configurations, extract sensitive system files and/or perform arbitrary command execution.
For a list of affected products, please see reference for more information.
CVE Reference: CVE-2016-5700
Suggested Action
CCIRC recommends that system administrators test and deploy the vendor-released updates to affected applications accordingly.
References
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/k/35/sol35520031.html