CVE-2012-1493
F5 BIG-IP appliances 9.x before 9.4.8-HF5, 10.x before 10.2.4, 11.0.x before 11.0.0-HF2, and 11.1.x before 11.1.0-HF3, and Enterprise…
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Description
F5 BIG-IP appliances 9.x before 9.4.8-HF5, 10.x before 10.2.4, 11.0.x before 11.0.0-HF2, and 11.1.x before 11.1.0-HF3, and Enterprise Manager before 2.1.0-HF2, 2.2.x before 2.2.0-HF1, and 2.3.x before 2.3.0-HF3, use a single SSH private key across different customers' installations and do not properly restrict access to this key, which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform SSH logins via the PubkeyAuthentication option.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 3 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Metasploit modules1 module
- F5 BIG-IP SSH Private Key Exposure (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/ssh/f5_bigip_known_privkeyRank excellentdisclosed 11 Jun 2012
Exploit-DB3 entries
- F5 BIG-IP - SSH Private Key Exposure (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 19099remote, hardwarepublished 13 Jun 2012Verified
- F5 BIG-IP - Authentication Bypass (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 19091remote, hardwarepublished 12 Jun 2012Verified
- F5 BIG-IP - Authentication Bypass (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 19064dos, hardwarepublished 11 Jun 2012Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 63.3% · top 0.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/600/sol13600.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/ssh/f5_bigip_known_privkey.rb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.trustmatta.com/advisories/MATTA-2012-002.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/13/f5_kit_metasploit_exploit/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-1511 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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