Medium [CVE-2025-43878] F5OS: When running in Appliance mode, an authenticated attacker assigned the Administrator or Resource Administrator role
This medium-severity F5 advisory covers CVE-2025-43878; related products: F5OS, F5OS-C.
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Summary
When running in Appliance mode, an authenticated attacker assigned the Administrator or Resource Administrator role may be able to bypass Appliance mode restrictions utilizing system diagnostics tcpdump command utility on a F5OS-C/A system.
Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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