Cross-site scripting in BIG-IP - CVE-2018-15315

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Cross-site scripting in BIG-IP - CVE-2018-15315

Published: October 25, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15535
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15315
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: F5 Networks
Affected software:
BIG-IP

Detailed vulnerability description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists in an undisclosed Configuration Utility page due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-15315

The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 12.1.3.7, 13.1.1.2, 14.0.0.

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