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CISA order to secure BIG-IP APM

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CISA added CVE-2025-53521 to its actively exploited list and ordered federal agencies to secure BIG-IP APM systems by midnight on Monday, March 30, 2026, escalating urgency around exposed federal access-management deployments. The directive tells agencies to apply vendor mitigations or discontinue use if protections are unavailable. That makes the flaw an immediate public-sector remediation issue for agencies running the affected product.

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  1. 30.03.2026 13:59 2 articles · 1mo ago

    CISA orders federal BIG-IP APM remediation for CVE-2025-53521

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    CISA added CVE-2025-53521 to its actively exploited list and directed federal agencies using BIG-IP APM to secure affected systems by midnight on Monday, March 30, 2026, or discontinue use if mitigations are unavailable. The same update came after F5 reclassified the BIG-IP APM flaw from a DoS issue to a critical RCE and warned that attackers were exploiting it to deploy webshells on unpatched devices.

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