Vulnerability in Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall (CVE-2025-61938)
Summary
Vulnerability in Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall (CVE-2025-61938). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
When a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or ASM security policy is configured with a URL greater than 1024 characters in length for the Data Guard Protection Enforcement setting, either manually or through the automatic Policy Builder, the bd process can terminate repeatedly. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-61938 has been found in Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall CVE-2025-61938" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-61938 (Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall) — CWE-1284 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-1284) exists in Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- patch f5sirt@f5.com