CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-22985

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-02-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-02-12
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])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

On BIG-IP APM version 16.0.x before 16.0.1.1, under certain conditions, when processing VPN traffic with APM, TMM consumes excessive memory. A malicious, authenticated VPN user may abuse this to perform a DoS attack against the APM. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Software Development (EoSD) are not evaluated.

Affected configurations

• f5 big-ip application security manager (>= 11.6.1 < 11.6.5.2) • f5 big-ip application security manager (>= 12.1.0 < 12.1.5.3) • f5 big-ip application security manager (>= 13.1.0 < 13.1.3.6) • f5 big-ip application security manager (>= 14.1.0 < 14.1.2.8) • f5 big-ip application security manager (>= 15.1.0 < 15.1.2) • f5 big-ip application security manager (>= 16.0.0 < 16.0.1.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References