CVE-2023-28742

BIG-IP iQuery mesh vulnerability

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.2
EPSS: EPSS 1.47 % · percentile 74 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-05-03
Updated: 2025-02-03
Assigner: f5
NVD status: Modified

Description

When DNS is provisioned, an authenticated remote command execution vulnerability exists in DNS iQuery mesh. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	f5
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · f5sirt@f5.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-78

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-32380
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-28742

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0354 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans F5 BIG-IP et NGINX · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_domain_name_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 13.1.0 ≤ 13.1.5
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_domain_name_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 14.1.0 < 14.1.5.4
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_domain_name_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 15.1.0 < 15.1.8.2
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_domain_name_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 16.1.0 < 16.1.3.4
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_domain_name_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 17.0.0 < 17.1.0.1

Affected products

Product	Versions
F5 · BIG-IP	affected 17.1.0 < 17.1.0.1 ; affected 17.0.0 < * ; affected 16.1.0 < 16.1.3.4 ; affected 15.1.0 < 15.1.8.2 ; affected 14.1.0 < 14.1.5.4 ; affected 13.1.0 < *

References

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000132972

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD