SB2025062445 - Race condition in BIG-IP Next OTEL collectors

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45310)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to crate empty files and directories on the host.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition when handling containers with custom configuration. A remote attacker can trick the victim into running a specially crafted Docker or Kubernetes container, which can be used to share a volume between two containers and then exploit a race with os.MkdirAll to create empty  files or directories in arbitrary locations in the host filesystem.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform a denial of service attack against the host system.

Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

References

• https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000151924