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 v4.0: 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:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15335
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: F5 Networks
Affected software:
BIG-IP APM
BIG-IP APM
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-15335
Update to version 14.0.0.