On F5 BIG-IP 16.1.x versions prior to 16.1.2.2, 15.1.x versions prior to 15.1.5.1, 14.1.x versions prior to 14.1.4.6, 13.1.x versions prior to 13.1.5, and all 12.1.x and 11.6.x versions, undisclosed requests may bypass iControl REST authentication. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated
CVE-2022-1388
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-05-10), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2022-24705 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-mrph-rvc3-cv97 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
The CVE record's CNA (F5, Inc.) lists F5 BIG-IP versions before 16.1.2.2, before 15.1.5.1, before 14.1.4.6, before 13.1.5 and 2 more ranges as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 99EG Risk 99/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your normal schedule at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high. - EPSS PROB
- >99.9%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- >99.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your normal schedule at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1388
Published
May 5, 2022
Last Modified
October 27, 2025
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Oct 30, 2026F5 BIG-IP Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Getting Exploit | SecPod
https://www.secpod.com/blog/critical-f5-big-ip-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-patch-now/Packet Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167150/F5-BIG-IP-iControl-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlPacket Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167118/F5-BIG-IP-16.0.x-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlPacket Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167007/F5-BIG-IP-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlWeakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
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- 2026-11-02 00:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 00:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mrph-rvc3-cv97 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-26 21:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mrph-rvc3-cv97 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-25 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS >99.9% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-10-24 19:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mrph-rvc3-cv97 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-20 17:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mrph-rvc3-cv97 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-17 19:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mrph-rvc3-cv97 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS >99.9% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-10-13 17:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mrph-rvc3-cv97 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Publicly available exploits
(13 references, 10 shown)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 8 GitHub PoCs), as are 1 Nuclei detection template, 2 GitHub checker repositories. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No fix is confirmed yet, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is published.
- Metasploitexploit/linux/http/f5_icontrol_rce✓ verifiedPublished May 11, 2022
F5 BIG-IP iControl RCE via REST Authentication Bypass
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-50932Published May 12, 2022
F5 BIG-IP 16.0.x - Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoC0xf4n9x/CVE-2022-1388Published May 9, 2022
CVE-2022-1388 F5 BIG-IP iControl REST Auth Bypass RCE
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCAl1ex/CVE-2022-1388Published May 9, 2022
CVE-2022-1388 F5 BIG-IP iControl REST RCE
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCalt3kx/CVE-2022-1388_PoCPublished May 9, 2022
F5 BIG-IP RCE exploitation (CVE-2022-1388)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoChorizon3ai/CVE-2022-1388Published May 9, 2022
POC for CVE-2022-1388
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCsherlocksecurity/CVE-2022-1388-Exploit-POCPublished May 9, 2022
PoC for CVE-2022-1388_F5_BIG-IP
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCZephrFish/F5-CVE-2022-1388-ExploitPublished May 9, 2022
Exploit and Check Script for CVE 2022-1388
Open source ↗ - Nucleihttp/cves/2022/CVE-2022-1388.yamlPublished May 9, 2022
F5 BIG-IP iControl - REST Auth Bypass RCE
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCdoocop/CVE-2022-1388-EXPPublished May 7, 2022
CVE-2022-1388 F5 BIG-IP RCE 批量检测
Open source ↗
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