Bug ID 1354205: LTM policy with overlapping range in the TCP address match may fail

Last Modified: Jun 19, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 15.1.10.6

Opened: Sep 20, 2023

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

An LTM policy using a rule that attempts to match based on a list of IP addresses may fail if more than one IP address range overlaps.

Impact

The action configured with the match will exclude IP address that do not match the more specific address range.

Conditions

LTM policy rule with a 'tcp match address' statement that matches against more than one IP address range. For example, if both 10.48.128.0/18 and 10.48.192.0/20 are used, then although 10.48.141.201 might match the /18 range, it will not match the /20 and therefore the match will fail.

Workaround

Avoid overlapping IP address range.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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