Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
11.6.0, 11.6.0 hf1, 11.6.0 hf2, 11.6.0 hf3, 11.6.0 hf4, 11.6.0 hf5, 11.6.0 hf6, 11.6.0 hf7, 11.6.0 hf8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 hf1, 11.6.1 hf2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 hf1, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3
Fixed In:
12.0.0
Opened: Dec 30, 2014 Severity: 3-Major Related Article:
K16972
Processing nested groups might cause an infinite loop.
User cannot pass access policy that contains the affected agent. The apd process must be restarted to re-initialize LDAP agent.
LDAP query is configured to get group membership using 'member' attribute. On the LDAP server, group1 has group2 as a member and group2 has group1 as a membermember (membership loop), then the LDAP Query falls into an infinite loop trying to resolve nested groups.
None.
The LDAP Query resolves group membership including nested groups as expected.