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High severity · published Mar 27, 2020
CVE-2020-5860
On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.1.0.2, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.2, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1 and BIG-IQ 7.0.0, 6.0.0-6.1.0, and 5.2.0-5.4.0, in a High Availability (HA)…
8.1
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.1.0.2, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.2, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1 and BIG-IQ 7.0.0, 6.0.0-6.1.0, and 5.2.0-5.4.0, in a High Availability (HA) network failover in Device Service Cluster (DSC), the failover service does not require a strong form of authentication and HA network failover traffic is not encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 58% 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
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Advanced Firewall Manager · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Analytics · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BA
Big-ip Application Security Manager · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BD
Big-ip Domain Name System · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BF
Big-ip Fraud Protection Service · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BG
Big-ip Global Traffic Manager · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BL
Big-ip Link Controller · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BL
Big-ip Local Traffic Manager · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BP
Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager · F5
11.5.2 through 11.6.5; 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; 15.0.0 through 15.1.0 · source: NVD
BC
Big-iq Centralized Management · F5
5.2.0 through 5.4.0; 6.0.0 through 6.1.0; 7.0.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
BA
Big-ip Access Policy Manager
F5
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5860
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5860
Vendor Advisory
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K67472032
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