Denial of service in BIG-IP PEM - CVE-2017-6169

 

Denial of service in BIG-IP PEM - CVE-2017-6169

Published: February 7, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10393
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6169
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: F5 Networks
Affected software:
BIG-IP PEM

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exist due to a flaw in the Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM) URL categorization process. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted URLs  disrupt traffic processing or cause the target virtual system to fail.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-6169

The vulnerability is addressed in the following versions: 11.6.3, 12.1.3.1, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.1.0.

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