CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-59478

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.37%

29th percentile - higher than 29% of all known CVEs

Summary

When a BIG-IP AFM denial-of-service (DoS) protection profile is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) process to terminate. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can send specially crafted requests, causing TMM to crash and disrupting services (denial of service). The risk applies to environments with a BIG-IP AFM DoS protection profile.

Recommendation

Apply available BIG-IP updates. Monitor service availability and consider additional DoS protections.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

When a BIG-IP AFM denial-of-service (DoS) protection profile is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) process to terminate.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS