CVE-2023-22283BIG-IP Edge Client for Windows vulnerability

6.5MediumCVSS base score
0.20%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 90% of all CVEs
NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
NonePublic exploitsnone known yet

Description

On versions beginning in 7.1.5 to before 7.2.3.1, a DLL hijacking vulnerability exists in the BIG-IP Edge Client for Windows. User interaction and administrative privileges are required to exploit this vulnerability because the victim user needs to run the executable on the system and the attacker requires administrative privileges for modifying the files in the trusted search path. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Timeline

2023
13 Jan 2023
13 Jan 2023
ID reserved
By f5
1 Feb 202319 days later
1 Feb 2023· 19 days later
Published
2025
26 Mar 20252 years later
26 Mar 2025· 2 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2023-22283, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
f5CNA (assigner)	3.1	Medium6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified	3.1	Medium6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC: Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Affected products

F5 · APM Clients
- affected 7.1.5 – < 7.2.3.1
- unaffected 7.2.4 – < *

References1

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K07143733 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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Record last updated 26 Mar 2025, 18:43 UTC.