CVE-2025-53860 (GCVE-0-2025-53860)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-15 15:15
Modified
2025-10-16 19:59
Severity ?
4.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-214 - Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information
Summary
A vulnerability exists in F5OS-A software that allows a highly privileged authenticated attacker to access sensitive FIPS hardware security module (HSM) information on F5 rSeries systems.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
References
f5sirt@f5.comhttps://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000148625
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
F5 F5OS - Appliance Version: 1.8.0   < 1.8.3
Version: 1.5.0   < 1.5.3
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