CVE-2018-5509

HIGH

F5 BIG-IP 12.1.0-12.1.3.1 - Denial of Service via Non-TCP Traffic to Misconfigured Virtual Server

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

On F5 BIG-IP versions 13.0.0 or 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.1, when a specifically configured virtual server receives traffic of an undisclosed nature, TMM will crash and take the configured failover action, potentially causing a denial of service. The configuration which exposes this issue is not common and in general does not work when enabled in previous versions of BIG-IP. Starting in 12.1.0, BIG-IP will crash if the configuration which exposes this issue is enabled and the virtual server receives non TCP traffic. With the fix of this issue, additional configuration validation logic has been added to prevent this configuration from being applied to a virtual server. There is only data plane exposure to this issue with a non-standard configuration. There is no control plane exposure.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040562
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K49440608
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103504

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0134
EPSS Percentile 80.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (8)
f5/big-ip_access_policy_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.2
f5/big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.2
f5/big-ip_application_acceleration_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.2
f5/big-ip_application_security_manager 12.1.0 - 12.3.1.2
f5/big-ip_link_controller 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.2
f5/big-ip_local_traffic_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.2
f5/big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.2
f5/big-ip_websafe 1.0.0
Published Mar 22, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026