Last Modified: Jul 28, 2026
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Device
Known Affected Versions:
8.3.0, 8.4.0, 8.4.1
Fixed In:
8.4.2
Opened: Mar 18, 2026 Severity: 3-Major
When assigning a Utility license offering via the BIG-IQ API, if multiple offerings have similar SKU names (e.g., one SKU is a substring of another), the API may assign the incorrect license. The system selects the first matching offering from the database, which may not be the intended SKU.
The API may assign the wrong license offering, resulting in incorrect licensing of BIG-IP devices. This can affect automation and management workflows, especially for devices that are unreachable or managed only via API.
- License pool contains multiple offerings with similar SKU names (e.g., F5-BIG-MSP-A-LTM-12 and F5-BIG-MSP-A-LTM-12-R). - License assignment is performed using the BIG-IQ API. - The SKU keyword used in the API request matches more than one offering.
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The license assignment behavior has been updated to sort offerings by the "name" field in ascending order. This ensures that the shortest, most exact match is chosen when multiple SKUs share a substring name.