CVE-2025-53521
Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances still exposed to RCE attacks
Internet threat-monitoring non-profit Shadowserver has found over 14,000 BIG-IP APM instances exposed online amid ongoing attacks exploiting a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. BIG-IP APM (short for Access Policy Manager) is F5’s centralized access management proxy solution designed to help admins secure access to their organizations’ networks, cloud, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs). […]
Hackers exploiting critical F5 BIG-IP flaw in attacks, patch now
Cybersecurity firm F5 Networks has reclassified a BIG-IP APM denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability as a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw, warning that attackers are exploiting it to deploy webshells on unpatched devices. BIG-IP APM (short for Access Policy Manager) is a centralized access management proxy solution that enables admins to secure and manage user access […]