Resource exhaustion in BIG-IP ASM - CVE-2019-6682
Published: December 28, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU23816
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-2019-6682
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 software may consume excessive resources when processing certain types of HTTP responses from the origin web server. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
BIG-IP ASM
How to mitigate CVE-2019-6682
Install updates from vendor's website.
BIG-IP ASM - addressed in versions 13.1.3.2, 14.1.2.3, 15.1.0