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CVE-2025-35995 (GCVE-0-2025-35995)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-07 22:04 – Updated: 2025-05-08 13:04
VLAI
Title
BIG-IP PEM vulnerability
Summary
When a BIG-IP PEM system is licensed with URL categorization, and the URL categorization policy or an iRule with the urlcat command is enabled on a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to terminate. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-08 13:04 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
F5 BIG-IP Unaffected: 17.5.0 , < * (custom)
Affected: 17.1.0 , < 17.1.2.2 (custom)
Affected: 16.1.0 , < 16.1.6 (custom)
Affected: 15.1.0 , < * (custom)
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Date Public
2025-05-07 14:00
Credits
F5
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