Detections
Analytics
CVE-2018-5546
high
Description
The svpn and policyserver components of the F5 BIG-IP APM client prior to version 7.1.7.1 for Linux and macOS runs as a privileged process and can allow an unprivileged user to get ownership of files owned by root on the local client host. A malicious local unprivileged user may gain knowledge of sensitive information, manipulate certain data, or assume super-user privileges on the local client host.
References
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K54431371
https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/F5/CVE-2018-5529.txt