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

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Heidi_35827
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Aug 02, 2012

cURL to the VIP, can we do that?

We have a basic port 80 VIP. Very simple. VIP is on port 80, 2 real servers behind it on port 8084.     My customer has some DOS-based devices that need to submit info to this VIP via cURL, ...
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Heidi_35827
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Aug 03, 2012
We finally got to the bottom of this today. Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

 

IPS was the culprit. Tipping Point between the router and the firewall. I didn't realize it lived there but scrutinizing every packet at every hop, we found it. Our Security guy just confirmed it is blocking the cURL.