CVE-2018-5539
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2018-07-25
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Description
Under certain conditions, on F5 BIG-IP ASM 13.0.0-13.1.0.7, 12.1.0-12.1.3.5, 11.6.0-11.6.3.1, 11.5.1-11.5.6, or 11.2.1, when processing CSRF protections, the BIG-IP ASM bd process may restart and produce a core file.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2018-07-2514:29CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2018-5539?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2018-5539?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.5 | ≥ 11.5.1, ≤ 11.5.6 | no fix published | NVD |
| 11.6 | ≥ 11.6.1, ≤ 11.6.3 | no fix published | NVD |
| 12.1 | ≥ 12.1.0, ≤ 12.1.3 | no fix published | NVD |
| 13.x | ≥ 13.0.0, ≤ 13.1.0 | no fix published | NVD |
| 11.2 | = 11.2.1 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
Advisories and patches
- support.f5.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.07.5read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.05read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.8 %2026-10-22
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Published
- 2018-07-25
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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