High severity · published Oct 20, 2017
CVE-2017-6145
iControl REST in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.0.0 through 12.1.2 and 13.0.0 includes a service to convert authorization…
7.3
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
iControl REST in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.0.0 through 12.1.2 and 13.0.0 includes a service to convert authorization BIGIPAuthCookie cookies to X-F5-Auth-Token tokens. This service does not properly re-validate cookies when making that conversion, allowing once-valid but now expired cookies to be converted to valid tokens.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 64% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BA
Big-ip Access Policy Manager · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Advanced Firewall Manager · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Analytics · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Application Security Manager · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
BD
Big-ip Domain Name System · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
BL
Big-ip Link Controller · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
BL
Big-ip Local Traffic Manager · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
BP
Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
BW
Big-ip Websafe · F5
12.1.0; 12.1.1; 12.1.2; 13.0.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6145
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6145
Mitigation
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22317030
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