Resource exhaustion in F5 Networks products - CVE-2019-6660

 

Resource exhaustion in F5 Networks products - CVE-2019-6660

Published: November 19, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU22832
CSH Severity: Medium
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-2019-6660
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 undisclosed HTTP requests may consume excessive amounts of systems resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

BIG-IP LTM
BIG-IP ASM
BIG-IP AFM
BIG-IP FPS
BIG-IP APM
BIG-IP GTM
BIG-IP Analytics
BIG-IP PEM
BIG-IP WebAccelerator
BIG-IP DNS
BIG-IP Edge Gateway
BIG-IP AAM
BIG-IP Link Controller

How to mitigate CVE-2019-6660

Install updates from vendor's website.

BIG-IP LTM - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP WebAccelerator - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP ASM - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP AFM - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP DNS - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP Edge Gateway - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP FPS - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP APM - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP GTM - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP AAM - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP Link Controller - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP Analytics - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1
BIG-IP PEM - addressed in versions 13.1.3, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.2.1

External References

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