CVE-2020-5860

HIGH

F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information in HA Network Failover Traffic

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.1.0.2, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.2, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1 and BIG-IQ 7.0.0, 6.0.0-6.1.0, and 5.2.0-5.4.0, in a High Availability (HA) network failover in Device Service Cluster (DSC), the failover service does not require a strong form of authentication and HA network failover traffic is not encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS).

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K67472032

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 49.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-319 CWE-287
Status published
Products (13)
f5/big-ip_access_policy_manager 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
f5/big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
f5/big-ip_analytics 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
f5/big-ip_application_acceleration_manager 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
f5/big-ip_application_security_manager 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
f5/big-ip_domain_name_system 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
f5/big-ip_fraud_protection_service 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
f5/big-ip_global_traffic_manager 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
f5/big-ip_link_controller 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
f5/big-ip_local_traffic_manager 11.5.2 - 11.6.5
... and 3 more
Published Mar 27, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026