#VU59843 Resource exhaustion in BIG-IP - CVE-2022-23030
Published: January 19, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU59843
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23030
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
BIG-IP
BIG-IP
Software vendor:
F5 Networks
F5 Networks
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the ixlv driver, used by BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) on X710/XL710/XXV710 family of network adapters on the Hypervisor. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Successful vulnerability exploitation requires enabled TCP Segmentation Offload configuration.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.