CVE-2025-53868
Essential information
- Published
- 15/10/2025 16:15
- Modified
- 04/02/2026 19:49
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 8.7 HIGH (v3.1) 8.5 HIGH (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- —
- CVSS vector
-
—
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/C:H/I:H/A:NCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/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
CVSS metrics
- Access vector
- —
- Access complexity
- —
- Authentication
- —
- Confidentiality impact
- —
- Integrity impact
- —
- Availability impact
- —
- Exploitability
- —
- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
- —
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- —
- Privileges required
- —
- User interaction
- —
- Scope
- —
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- None
- Exploit code maturity
- —
- Remediation level
- —
- Report confidence
- —
- Temporal score
- —
- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Attack requirements
- NONE
- Privileges required
- HIGH
- User interaction
- NONE
- Confidentiality (V)
- HIGH
- Confidentiality (S)
- NONE
- Integrity (V)
- HIGH
- Integrity (S)
- NONE
- Availability (V)
- NONE
- Availability (S)
- NONE
- Exploit maturity
- NOT_DEFINED
Description
When running in Appliance mode, a highly privileged authenticated attacker with access to SCP and SFTP may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions using undisclosed commands. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
NVD status
- Status
- Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| f5 / f5 appliance | cpe:2.3:a:f5:f5_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |