Last Modified: Jul 03, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP Install/Upgrade, TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
16.1.6, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2
Fixed In:
17.5.0
Opened: Jan 20, 2025 Severity: 2-Critical
REST tokens that are present in /var/run/pamcache on BIG-IP are not deleted after token expiration after the upgrade to version 17.1.2
More memory will be used as /run/pamcache is an in-memory filesystem Users who have requested 100+ REST tokens may start to receive 400 responses with the message: "user <username> has reached maximum active login tokens".
The system is upgraded to version 17.1.2
Manually remove expired tokens from /var/run/pamcache or delete them using the /mgmt/shared/authz/tokens API endpoint. restcurl -X DELETE /shared/authz/tokens
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