CVE-2024-21782 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-21782

BIG-IP and BIG-IQ secure copy vulnerability

Vulnerability Description

BIG-IP or BIG-IQ Resource Administrators and Certificate Managers who have access to the secure copy (scp) utility but do not have access to Advanced shell (bash) can execute arbitrary commands with a specially crafted command string. This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-5873. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • F5

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

BIG-IP, BIG-IQ
Vulnerable Versions:
17.1.0, 16.1.0, 15.1.0, 8.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 14th, 2024
Last Modified: May 12th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)