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CVE-2023-43485: BIGIP and BIG-IQ TACACS+ audit log Vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.18% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: F5 BIG-IP 15.1.9, 16.1.4; F5 BIG-IQ 8.2.0.1.0.13.97-ENG, 8.3.0.0.12.118-ENG.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to F5 BIG-IP 15.1.9, 16.1.4; F5 BIG-IQ 8.2.0.1.0.13.97-ENG, 8.3.0.0.12.118-ENG or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

When TACACS+ audit forwarding is configured on BIG-IP or BIG-IQ system, sharedsecret is logged in plaintext in the audit log.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Oct 10, 2023
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 8th percentile

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Action score

22

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · f5
5.5
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

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VendorProduct
f5big-iq centralized management
f5big-ip access policy manager
f5big-ip advanced firewall manager
f5big-ip application security manager
f5big-ip domain name system
f5big-ip local traffic manager
f5big-ip advanced web application firewall
f5big-ip analytics
f5big-ip application acceleration manager
f5big-ip application visibility and reporting
f5big-ip carrier-grade nat
f5big-ip ddos hybrid defender

and 7 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • f5 big-ip access policy manager15.1.0 and later · before 15.1.9
  • f5 big-ip access policy manager16.1.0 and later · before 16.1.4
  • f5 big-ip access policy manager13.1.0 and later · up to 13.1.5 inclusive
  • f5 big-ip access policy manager14.1.0 and later · up to 14.1.5 inclusive
  • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager14.1.0 and later · up to 14.1.5 inclusive
  • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager16.1.0 and later · before 16.1.4
  • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager13.1.0 and later · up to 13.1.5 inclusive
  • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager15.1.0 and later · before 15.1.9
  • f5 big-ip advanced web application firewall15.1.0 and later · before 15.1.9
  • f5 big-ip advanced web application firewall13.1.0 and later · up to 13.1.5 inclusive
  • f5 big-ip advanced web application firewall14.1.0 and later · up to 14.1.5 inclusive
  • f5 big-ip advanced web application firewall16.1.0 and later · before 16.1.4
  • f5 big-ip analytics14.1.0 and later · up to 14.1.5 inclusive
  • f5 big-ip analytics13.1.0 and later · up to 13.1.5 inclusive
  • f5 big-ip analytics16.1.0 and later · before 16.1.4
  • f5 big-ip analytics15.1.0 and later · before 15.1.9
  • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager15.1.0 and later · before 15.1.9
  • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager14.1.0 and later · up to 14.1.5 inclusive
  • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager16.1.0 and later · before 16.1.4
  • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager13.1.0 and later · up to 13.1.5 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (f5). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • F5 BIG-IP

    • 17.1.0 and laternot affected · semver
    • 16.1.0 and later · before 16.1.4affected · semver
    • 15.1.0 and later · before 15.1.9affected · semver
    • 14.1.0 and lateraffected · semver
    • 13.1.0 and lateraffected · semver

  • F5 BIG-IQ

    • 8.1.0 and lateraffected · semver
    • 8.2.0 and later · before 8.2.0.1.0.13.97-ENGaffected · semver
    • 8.3.0 and later · before 8.3.0.0.12.118-ENGaffected · semver

Same product

f5: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2022-41622iControl SOAP vulnerability
    63This week
  • CVE-2020-5868In BIG-IQ 6.0.0-7.0.0, a remote access vulnerability has been discovered that may allow a remote user to execute shell commands on affected…
    40Plan
  • CVE-2021-23005On all 7.x and 6.x versions (fixed in 8.0.0), when using a Quorum device for BIG-IQ high availability (HA) for automatic failover, BIG-IQ…
    36Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-23009Jan 25, 2022 · On BIG-IQ Centralized Management 8.x before 8.1.0, an authenticated administrative role user on a BIG-IQ managed BIG-IP device can access…
    28Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-29240May 3, 2023 · BIG-IQ iControl REST Vulnerability
    21Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-47139Oct 16, 2024 · F5 BIG-IQ Vulnerability
    19Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
F5 BIG-IP15.1.9Vendor (CNA)
F5 BIG-IP16.1.4Vendor (CNA)
F5 BIG-IQ8.2.0.1.0.13.97-ENGVendor (CNA)
F5 BIG-IQ8.3.0.0.12.118-ENGVendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-532 · Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-secondary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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