CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5946

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-11-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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

Description

In BIG-IP Advanced WAF and FPS versions 16.0.0-16.0.0.1, 15.1.0-15.1.0.5, and 14.1.0-14.1.2.7, under some circumstances, certain format client-side alerts sent to the BIG-IP virtual server configured with DataSafe may cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to restart, resulting in a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

Affected configurations

• f5 big-ip advanced web application firewall (>= 14.1.0 < 14.1.2.8) • f5 big-ip advanced web application firewall (> 15.1.0 < 15.1.1) • f5 big-ip advanced web application firewall (>= 16.0.0 < 16.0.1) • f5 big-ip fraud protection service (>= 14.1.0 < 14.1.2.8) • f5 big-ip fraud protection service (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.1) • f5 big-ip fraud protection service (>= 16.0.0 < 16.0.1)

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