🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-39455

HIGH 7.5

BIG-IP Configuration utility vulnerability

CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

When the BIG-IP Configuration utility is configured to use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication, undisclosed traffic can cause the httpd process to exhaust the available file descriptors.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

CWE CWE-772
Vendor f5
Product big-ip
Published May 13, 2026
Last Updated May 13, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected Versions

F5 / BIG-IP
21.0.0 < 21.0.0.2 17.5.0 < 17.5.1.6 17.1.0 < 17.1.3.2 16.1.0 < *

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
my.f5.com: https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000160874

Credits

F5