SB2023020310 - Denial of service in BIG-IP Advanced WAF and ASM bd process
Published: February 3, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023020310
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
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 vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-23552)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to system does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the bd process. A remote attacker can send specially crafted traffic to the device and cause increase in memory resource utilization, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition of the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) process.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.