CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-6138

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-12-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, GTM, Link Controller, PEM and WebSafe software version 13.0.0 and 12.1.0 - 12.1.2, malicious requests made to virtual servers with an HTTP profile can cause the TMM to restart. The issue is exposed with BIG-IP APM profiles, regardless of settings. The issue is also exposed with the non-default "normalize URI" configuration options used in iRules and/or BIG-IP LTM policies.

Affected configurations

• f5 big-ip local traffic manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip local traffic manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip analytics (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip analytics 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip access policy manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip access policy manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip application security manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip application security manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip dns (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip dns 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip global traffic manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip global traffic manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip link controller (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip link controller 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager 13.0.0 • f5 big-ip websafe (>= 12.1.0 <= 12.1.2) • f5 big-ip websafe 13.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References