High severity · published Mar 22, 2018
CVE-2018-5509
On F5 BIG-IP versions 13.0.0 or 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.1, when a specifically configured virtual server receives traffic of an undisclosed nature, TMM will crash and take the configured…
7.5
CVSS
2.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
On F5 BIG-IP versions 13.0.0 or 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.1, when a specifically configured virtual server receives traffic of an undisclosed nature, TMM will crash and take the configured failover action, potentially causing a denial of service. The configuration which exposes this issue is not common and in general does not work when enabled in previous versions of BIG-IP. Starting in 12.1.0, BIG-IP will crash if the configuration which exposes this issue is enabled and the virtual server receives non TCP traffic. With the fix of this issue, additional configuration validation logic has been added to prevent this configuration from being applied to a virtual server. There is only data plane exposure to this issue with a non-standard configuration. There is no control plane exposure.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.8% · higher than 86% 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 before 12.1.3.2; 13.0.0 before 13.1.0.4 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Advanced Firewall Manager · F5
12.1.0 before 12.1.3.2; 13.0.0 before 13.1.0.4 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager · F5
12.1.0 before 12.1.3.2; 13.0.0 before 13.1.0.4 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Application Security Manager · F5
12.1.0 before 12.3.1.2; 13.0.0 before 13.1.0.4 · source: NVD
BL
Big-ip Link Controller · F5
12.1.0 before 12.1.3.2; 13.0.0 before 13.1.0.4 · source: NVD
BL
Big-ip Local Traffic Manager · F5
12.1.0 before 12.1.3.2; 13.0.0 before 13.1.0.4 · source: NVD
BP
Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager · F5
12.1.0 before 12.1.3.2; 13.0.0 before 13.1.0.4 · source: NVD
BW
Big-ip Websafe · F5
1.0.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
BA
Big-ip Access Policy Manager
F5
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