CVE-2026-42780
BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator vulnerability
At a glance Severity MEDIUM 6.9 EPSS EPSS 0.89 % · percentile 59 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2026-05-13 Updated 2026-05-13 Assigner f5 NVD status Analyzed
Description A directory traversal vulnerability exists in BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator that allows an authenticated attacker with high privilege to overwrite, delete or corrupt arbitrary local files.
Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N f5 CVSS 4.0 MEDIUM 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N f5 CVSS 4.0 MEDIUM 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X NVD · f5sirt@f5.com (Secondary) CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N NVD · f5sirt@f5.com (Secondary)
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Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_ssl_orchestrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 17.1.0 ≤ 17.1.3cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_ssl_orchestrator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 17.5.0 ≤ 17.5.1cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_ssl_orchestrator:21.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products Product Versions F5 · BIG-IP unaffected 21.1.0 < * ; affected 21.0.0 < 21.0.0.1 ; affected 17.5.0 < 17.5.1.5 ; affected 17.1.0 < 17.1.3.1 ; affected 16.1.0 < * F5 · SSL Orchestrator unaffected 14.0 < * ; affected 13.0 < 13.1.3 ; affected 12.0 < 12.3.2 ; affected 11.0 < 11.4.1
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