Privilege Escalation in F5OS-A and F5OS-C
CVE-2025-57780 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting F5OS-A and F5OS-C systems. According to the provided content, the flaw may allow an authenticated attacker with local access to escalate privileges and cross a security boundary, with higher severity when the system is operating in appliance mode. F5 advisory K000156771 describes it as a control-plane issue and notes that it does not affect the data plane. The specific vulnerable function or root cause is not provided in the supplied material.
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Impact
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Exploits
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Affected products & vendors
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Recent activity
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A vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP products, details undisclosed, but considered critical due to the exposure of source code and risk of exploit acceleration.
An F5OS vulnerability (appliance mode) posing a critical threat to F5OS systems (CVSS up to 8.8).
An F5OS-A/C privilege escalation vulnerability allowing an authenticated attacker to escalate privileges.
An F5 vulnerability referenced as one of several 2025 privilege escalation and Appliance mode bypass issues, but not described in detail in the content.
The version that knows your environment.
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.