An exploit for a recently patched vulnerability that allows potential attackers to obtain administrative access on network appliances from hardware vendor F5 Networks was added to the Metasploit penetration testing framework on Tuesday. The vulnerability is the result of a SSH private key present in many F5 appliances being publicly available. Users of the affected products should install the software updates and hotfixes made available by F5 as soon as possible. F5 also released a tool that can be used by customers that cannot immediately deploy the security patches, to prevent the compromised key from working.”]