Administrative privilege escalation via SSH port forwarding
Published Oct 15, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 2025
Privilege escalation in affected F5OS-A and F5OS-C releases allows local users to gain administrative access through SSH port forwarding. The SSH service permits a low-privileged account to forward traffic across the appliance-mode security boundary into an administrative interface. Exploitation requires an authenticated local account and can expose, modify, or interrupt resources controlled beyond that account's assigned privilege boundary.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in affected F5OS-A and F5OS-C releases allows local users to gain administrative access through SSH port forwarding. The SSH service permits a low-privileged account to forward traffic across the appliance-mode security boundary into an administrative interface. Exploitation requires an authenticated local account and can expose, modify, or interrupt resources controlled beyond that account's assigned privilege boundary.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-57780
- Published
- Oct 15, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2025
- Vendor
- F5 Networks
- Product
- F5OS-A
- Classifications
- CWE-250, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 15, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 15, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.5.0 <1.5.4
- Affected versionversion=1.8.0 <1.8.3
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