Last Modified: Jul 18, 2026
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.4, 11.5.4 hf1, 11.5.4 hf2, 11.5.4 hf3, 11.5.4 hf4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 hf1, 12.0.0 hf2, 12.0.0 hf3, 12.0.0 hf4, 12.1.0, 12.1.0 hf1, 12.1.0 hf2, 12.1.1, 12.1.1 hf1, 12.1.1 hf2, 12.1.2, 12.1.2 hf1, 12.1.2 hf2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6
Opened: Jun 14, 2016 Severity: 4-Minor
When running the tmsh show sys crypto fips command, you notice stale keys that you have previously deleted are left behind on the FIPS card.
A stale key is left on the FIPS card. There is no impact to functionality.
This occurs when you have BIG-IPs with FIPS HSMs, configured in manual sync mode, under the following set of actions: - Create a key-cert pair - Associate the new key-cert pair with a clientssl profile - Config sync to the peers - Associate the clientssl profile with the default key and cert - Delete the key and cert - Manual sync
Check for the handles/key-ids of the keys in configuration using tmsh. Then remove the key that is not in use using the command tmsh delete sys crypto key <keyname>
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