CVE-2023-46747BIG-IP Configuration utility unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 96.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 31 Oct 2023
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Undisclosed requests may bypass configuration utility authentication, allowing an attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port and/or self IP addresses to execute arbitrary system commands. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as F5 BIG-IP Configuration Utility Authentication Bypass Vulnerability.
- Added
- 31 Oct 2023
- Fix due (US federal)
- 21 Nov 2023
- Used by ransomware
- Known
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV and ENISA's EU KEV, since 31 Oct 2023.
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 a Nuclei template for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- F5 BIG-IP TMUI AJP Smuggling RCE (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/f5_bigip_tmui_rce_cve_2023_46747Rank excellentdisclosed 26 Oct 2023
Nuclei templates1 template
- F5 BIG-IP - Unauthenticated RCE via AJP Smuggling (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-46747.yamlSeverity critical
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 f5
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited, also by ransomware
- 24 months later
· 24 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| f5CNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 96.7% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
References
References4
- https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000137353 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175673/F5-BIG-IP-TMUI-AJP-Smuggling-Remote-Command-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.secpod.com/blog/f5-issues-warning-big-ip-vulnerability-used-in-active-exploit-chain/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-46747 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-50916 (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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