CVE-2020-5885

CRITICAL

F5 BIG-IP 12.1.0-15.1.0.1 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Cryptographic Objects

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

On versions 15.0.0-15.1.0.1, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.3, and 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, BIG-IP systems set up for connection mirroring in a high availability (HA) pair transfer sensitive cryptographic objects over an insecure communications channel. This is a control plane issue which is exposed only on the network used for connection mirroring.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K17663061

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 47.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-319 CWE-326
Status published
Products (11)
f5/big-ip_access_policy_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
f5/big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
f5/big-ip_analytics 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
f5/big-ip_application_acceleration_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
f5/big-ip_application_security_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
f5/big-ip_domain_name_system 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
f5/big-ip_fraud_protection_service 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
f5/big-ip_global_traffic_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
f5/big-ip_link_controller 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
f5/big-ip_local_traffic_manager 12.1.0 - 12.1.5.1
... and 1 more
Published Apr 30, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026