CVE-2022-41836 (GCVE-0-2022-41836)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-19 21:25 – Updated: 2025-05-07 20:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
BIG-IP Advanced WAF and ASM bd vulnerability CVE-2022-41836
Summary
When an 'Attack Signature False Positive Mode' enabled security policy is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause the bd process to terminate.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-07 20:51 UTC
CWE
- CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F5 | BIG-IP Advanced WAF & ASM |
Affected:
17.0.x , < 17.0.0.1
(custom)
Affected: 16.1.x , < 16.1.3.1 (custom) Affected: 15.1.x , < 15.1.7 (custom) Unaffected: 14.1.0 , < 14.1.x* (custom) Unaffected: 13.1.0 , < 13.1.x* (custom) |
guessed |
Date Public
2022-10-19 00:00
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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