Last Modified: Oct 19, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 16.1.5.2, 16.1.6, 16.1.6.1
Fixed In:
17.1.0
Opened: Jul 15, 2022 Severity: 3-Major
When the anacron job /etc/cron.daily/integritycheck fails, the failure is logged only to /var/log/secure which might not be easily visible to the user.
User might not be aware of the system integrity failure and the system will halt or brick on the next reboot.
The /etc/libexec/sys-eicheck.py script for system integrity check fails through crontab script /etc/cron.daily/integritycheck.
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If the anacron job integrity check fails, then during the next login a caution is displayed to the user with the message "FIPS SYSTEM VALIDATION FAILED, CHECK /var/log/secure FOR DETAILS" on both Configuration utility and TMSH.