CVE-2023-46747

What the flaw is

F5 BIG-IP Configuration utility contains an authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel vulnerability due to undisclosed requests that may allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port and/or self IP addresses to execute system commands. This vulnerability can be used in conjunction with CVE-2023-46748.

Description as published by CISA. We have not independently reproduced it.

What CISA requires

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

This deadline is binding on US federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01. It is not a legal deadline for anyone else, but it is a useful urgency signal — CISA sets it by how actively the flaw is being used, not by CVSS.

Public exploit code

64 public repositories referencing this CVE have been catalogued on GitHub. That volume usually means a reliable, widely-reproduced exploit. Treat this as a strong signal to prioritise patching, not as a verified working exploit — many such repositories are scanners, write-ups or forks rather than functional code.

• 0day404/HV-2024-POC
• 0xAj-Krishna/biggest-hack
• 0xAj-Krishna/biggest-hack-2023-24
• 0xMarcio/cve
• 12442RF/POC
• AMELYA13/CVE-2023-46747-Mass-RCE
• ARPSyndicate/cve-scores
• AboSteam/POPC

Showing 8 of 64. Full list in the trickest/cve dataset.

Vendor advisories

• my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000137353
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46747

Primary sources

• NVD entry — CVSS score, CPE list and references
• CISA KEV catalog — the source for this page
• CVE Record at cve.org