CVE-2025-43878: When running in Appliance mode, an authenticated attacker assigned the Administrator or Resource Administrator role may be able to bypass Appliance mode…

PriorityP428medium6CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRHUINSUCHIHAN

EPSS

0.14%

4.2th percentile

When running in Appliance mode, an authenticated attacker assigned the Administrator or Resource Administrator role may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions utilizing system diagnostics tcpdump command utility on a F5OS-C/A system. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
f5	f5os-a	—	—
f5	f5os-a	>= 1.5.1 < 1.8.0	1.8.0
f5	f5os-c	—	—
f5	f5os-c	1.6.0 – 1.6.2	—
f5	f5os_appliance	>= 1.5.1 < 1.8.0	1.8.0
f5	f5os_chassis	>= 1.6.0 < 1.8.0	1.8.0

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.0MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvdv4.08.3HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:L/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

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