Denial of service in BIG-IP APM



Published: 2020-12-17
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2020-27724
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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BIG-IP APM
Hardware solutions / Security hardware applicances

Vendor F5 Networks

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU49065

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27724

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to BIG-IP APM does not properly control consumption of internal resources on systems running more than one TMM instance. A remote authenticated VPN user can consume excessive resources by sending specially-crafted malicious traffic over the tunnel. and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

BIG-IP APM: 13.1.0 - 16.0.0

External links

http://support.f5.com/csp/article/K04518313


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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