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What is this endpoint?

mgmt/shared/authn/login

F5 BIG-IP

What an attacker could do

This F5 BIG-IP iControl REST authentication endpoint is the entry point for CVE-2022-1388 (auth bypass) and CVE-2021-22986 (unauthenticated RCE), letting an attacker create admin tokens and run root commands on the appliance.

How to defend it

Apply current BIG-IP engineering hotfixes, restrict the management/iControl REST interface to a dedicated management network, and follow F5's mitigation of blocking iControl REST over self-IP and the management port.

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