CVE-2023-5450 (GCVE-0-2023-5450)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-10 12:31 – Updated: 2024-09-13 16:41
VLAI
Title
BIG-IP Edge Client for macOS vulnerability
Summary
An insufficient verification of data vulnerability exists in BIG-IP Edge Client Installer on macOS that may allow an attacker elevation of privileges during the installation process.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-13 16:33 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
F5 BIG-IP Edge Client Affected: 7.2.3 , < 7.2.4.5 (semver)
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f5 big-ip_access_policy_manager Affected: 17.1.0 , < 17.1.1.1 (custom)
Affected: 16.1.0 , < 16.1.4.2 (custom)
Affected: 15.1.0 , < 15.1.10.3 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_access_policy_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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f5 access_policy_manager_clients Affected: 7.2.3 , < 7.2.5 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:f5:access_policy_manager_clients:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2023-08-02 14:00
Credits
F5 acknowledges Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro for bringing this issue to our attention and following the highest standards of coordinated disclosure.
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        "dateUpdated": "2024-09-13T16:41:55.571Z",
        "state": "PUBLISHED"
      },
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}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.