CVE-2020-5890

MEDIUM

BIG-IP 12.1.0-15.0.1 & BIG-IQ 5.2.0-7.1.0 - LDAP Credential Exposure via QKView Obfuscation Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.3, and 12.1.0-12.1.5.1 and BIG-IQ 5.2.0-7.1.0, when creating a QKView, credentials for binding to LDAP servers used for remote authentication of the BIG-IP administrative interface will not fully obfuscate if they contain whitespace.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K03318649

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 32.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (13)
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 3 more
Published Apr 30, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026