SB2020033008 - Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack in F5 BIG-IP products and BIG-IQ Centralized Management
Published: March 30, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020033008
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5860)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack.
The vulnerability exists in a High Availability (HA) network failover in Device Service Cluster (DSC) due to the failover service does not require a strong form of authentication and HA network failover traffic is not encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS). A remote attacker can perform a man-in-the-middle attack to access the unencrypted HA network failover traffic.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.