CVSS 3.0
4.4 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2018-5540
On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.0.1, 12.1.0-12.1.3.3, 11.6.0-11.6.3.1, or 11.5.1-11.5.6, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.0.0-5.1.0, BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0, or F5 iWorkflow 2.1.0-2.3.0 the big3d process does not irrevocably minimize group privileges at start up.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 35% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-732
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- f5:big-ip_domain_name_system
- f5:big-ip_global_traffic_manager
- f5:big-iq_centralized_management
- f5:big-iq_cloud_and_orchestration
- f5:enterprise_manager
- f5:f5_iworkflow