Denial of service in BIG-IP APM - CVE-2018-15335
Published: January 2, 2019 / Updated: January 2, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16775
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15335
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to APM becomes a client application to an external OAuth authorization server when APM is deployed as an OAuth Resource Server. A remote attacker can cause APM not to display the intended message in the failure response when communication between the BIG-IP APM and the OAuth authorization server is lost.
Affected software
BIG-IP APM
How to mitigate CVE-2018-15335
Update to version 14.0.0.
BIG-IP APM - update to 14.0.0