Florent Daigniere has reported a security issue in multiple F5 products, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The security issue is caused due to the SSH private key being publicly available, granting "root" user access to vulnerable devices.

The security issue affects the following products and versions:
* BIG-IP LTM versions 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x
* BIG-IP GTM versions 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x
* BIG-IP ASM versions 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x
* BIG-IP Link Controller versions 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x
* BIG-IP PSM versions 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x
* BIG-IP WOM versions 10.x and 11.x
* BIG-IP APM versions 10.x and 11.x
* BIG-IP Edge Gateway versions 10.x and 11.x
* BIG-IP Analytics versions 11.x
* Enterprise Manager versions 1.x and 2.x

Solution
Update to the fixed versions. Please see vendor's advisory for more details.

Provided and/or discovered by
Florent Daignier, Matta Consulting.

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
F5:
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/600/sol13600.html

Matta Consulting:
https://www.trustmatta.com/advisories/MATTA-2012-002.txt

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