CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-6131

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-05-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-798

Description

In some circumstances, an F5 BIG-IP version 12.0.0 to 12.1.2 and 13.0.0 Azure cloud instance may contain a default administrative password which could be used to remotely log into the BIG-IP system. The impacted administrative account is the Azure instance administrative user that was created at deployment. The root and admin accounts are not vulnerable. An attacker may be able to remotely access the BIG-IP host via SSH.

Affected configurations

• f5 big-ip local traffic manager 12.0.0 • f5 big-ip local traffic manager 12.1.0 • f5 big-ip local traffic manager 12.1.1 • f5 big-ip local traffic manager 12.1.2 • f5 big-ip local traffic manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager 12.0.0 • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager 12.1.0 • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager 12.1.1 • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager 12.1.2 • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager 12.0.0 • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager 12.1.0 • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager 12.1.1 • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager 12.1.2 • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip access policy manager 12.0.0 • f5 big-ip access policy manager 12.1.0 • f5 big-ip access policy manager 12.1.1 • f5 big-ip access policy manager 12.1.2 • f5 big-ip access policy manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip application security manager 12.0.0 • f5 big-ip application security manager 12.1.0 • f5 big-ip application security manager 12.1.1 • f5 big-ip application security manager 12.1.2 • f5 big-ip application security manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip domain name system 12.0.0 • f5 big-ip domain name system 12.1.0 • f5 big-ip domain name system 12.1.1 • f5 big-ip domain name system 12.1.2 • f5 big-ip domain name system 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip link controller 12.0.0 • f5 big-ip link controller 12.1.0 • f5 big-ip link controller 12.1.1 • f5 big-ip link controller 12.1.2 • f5 big-ip link controller 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager 12.0.0 • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager 12.1.0 • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager 12.1.1 • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager 12.1.2 • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip websafe 12.0.0 • f5 big-ip websafe 12.1.0 • f5 big-ip websafe 12.1.1 • f5 big-ip websafe 12.1.2 • f5 big-ip websafe 13.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References