CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-6159

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-10-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, Websafe software version 12.0.0 to 12.1.2, 11.6.0 to 11.6.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack when the MPTCP option is enabled on a virtual server. Data plane is vulnerable when using the MPTCP option of a TCP profile. There is no control plane exposure. An attacker may be able to disrupt services by causing TMM to restart hence temporarily failing to process traffic.

Affected configurations

• f5 big-ip local traffic manager 11.6.0 • f5 big-ip local traffic manager 11.6.1 • 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 application acceleration manager 11.6.0 • f5 big-ip application acceleration manager 11.6.1 • 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 advanced firewall manager 11.6.0 • f5 big-ip advanced firewall manager 11.6.1 • 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 access policy manager 11.6.0 • f5 big-ip access policy manager 11.6.1 • 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 application security manager 11.6.0 • f5 big-ip application security manager 11.6.1 • 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 link controller 11.6.0 • f5 big-ip link controller 11.6.1 • 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 policy enforcement manager 11.6.0 • f5 big-ip policy enforcement manager 11.6.1 • 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 websafe 1.0.0

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