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CVE-2026-60062 (GCVE-0-2026-60062)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-15 14:33 – Updated: 2026-07-15 15:37
VLAI
Title
NGINX Agent Vulnerability
Summary
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Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-15 15:37 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000161971 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
F5 NGINX Agent Unaffected: 3.0.0 , < * (custom)
Affected: 2.0.0 , < 2.47.0 (custom)
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F5 NGINX Instance Manager Affected: 2.22.0 , < 2.22.2 (custom)
Affected: 2.17.1 , < * (custom)
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Date Public
2026-07-15 14:00
Credits
F5
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.