September 24, 2026
- F5 BIG-IP APM CVE-2026-94127 gets its root cause. watchTowr diffed the hotfixes and found the patch simply adds size checks on the OAuth
Authorizationheader — an oversized header drives an unauthenticated heap overflow to RCE, and only deployments where APM acts as an OAuth authorization server are affected (watchTowr Labs). F5 confirmed exploitation in the wild in its 22 September advisory; CERT-SE has issued a Swedish-language alert calling it critical and unauthenticated (CERT-SE) and CERT-EU urges immediate action (CERT-EU 2026-013) (earlier coverage). · Vulnerabilities & Exploits - CERT-DK says AI bug hunters have produced a record year for patches (CERT.dk) — a trend watchTowr frames from the defender's side in its F5 write-up, warning that LLM-generated "slop" payloads showing up in access logs are not evidence of exploitation. · AI-Enabled Threat Activity