CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-54858

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Oct 15, 2025 | Modified: Oct 21, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

When a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or BIG-IP ASM Security Policy is configured with a JSON content profile that has a malformed JSON schema, and the security policy is applied to a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause the bd process to terminate.

 Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Big-ip_advanced_web_application_firewall F5 15.1.0 (including) 15.1.10.8 (excluding)
Big-ip_advanced_web_application_firewall F5 16.1.0 (including) 16.1.6.1 (excluding)
Big-ip_advanced_web_application_firewall F5 17.1.0 (including) 17.1.3 (excluding)
Big-ip_advanced_web_application_firewall F5 17.5.0 (including) 17.5.1.3 (excluding)
Big-ip_application_security_manager F5 15.1.0 (including) 15.1.10.8 (excluding)
Big-ip_application_security_manager F5 16.1.0 (including) 16.1.6.1 (excluding)
Big-ip_application_security_manager F5 17.1.0 (including) 17.1.3 (excluding)
Big-ip_application_security_manager F5 17.5.0 (including) 17.5.1.3 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References