Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

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SanYang's avatar
SanYang
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Oct 03, 2023

About the upgraded bigip.conf

Hello, I want to make sure that bigip.conf works after the upgrade. I used comparison software to make sure it was the same and found tons of discrepancies in the image below. Is this normal? ...
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Paulius's avatar
Paulius
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Oct 03, 2023

SanYang Based on what you provided it looks like you have to upgrade to 16.x and then upgrade from 16.x to 17.x looking at the following article.

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K13845

Aside from this I would imagine differences will exist because of updates to signatures or even the way a command might change from code version to code version. To me it seems like it has switched from plaintext to some sort of hashed value instead.