CVE-2017-6145

HIGH

F5 BIG-IP 12.0.0-12.1.2 and 13.0.0 - Insufficient Session Expiration via iControl REST Cookie Conversion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

iControl REST in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.0.0 through 12.1.2 and 13.0.0 includes a service to convert authorization BIGIPAuthCookie cookies to X-F5-Auth-Token tokens. This service does not properly re-validate cookies when making that conversion, allowing once-valid but now expired cookies to be converted to valid tokens.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22317030

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 58.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-613
Status published
Products (42)
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_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_analytics 12.1.0
f5/big-ip_analytics 12.1.1
... and 32 more
Published Oct 20, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026