CVE-2025-43878

F5OS-A/C CLI vulnerability

MEDIUM

CVSS Score

Published: May 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:24 AM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorF5OS-AF5OS-C

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Severity

MEDIUM6

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.2%

SSVC

No known exploit

Description

When running in Appliance mode, an authenticated attacker assigned the Administrator or Resource Administrator role may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions utilizing system diagnostics tcpdump command utility on a F5OS-C/A system. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

F5OS-A · F5

95%

1.5.1 ≤ v < 1.8.01.5.1

Affected range stops below 1.8.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

f5-r10600 (environment) · f5-r10800 (environment) · f5-r10900 (environment) · f5-r12600-ds (environment) · f5-r12800-ds (environment) · f5-r12900-ds (environment) · f5-r5600 (environment) · f5-r5800 (environment) · f5-r5900 (environment) · f5-velos-cx1610 (environment) · f5-velos-cx410 (environment)

F5OS-C · F5

95%

1.6.0 ≤ v ≤ 1.6.21.6.0 ≤ v < 1.8.01.6.0

Affected range stops below 1.8.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement