Resource exhaustion in BIG-IP ASM - CVE-2023-23552
Published: February 3, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU71787
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-2023-23552
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 system does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the bd process. A remote attacker can send specially crafted traffic to the device and cause increase in memory resource utilization, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition of the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) process.
Affected software
BIG-IP ASM
How to mitigate CVE-2023-23552
Install updates from vendor's website.
BIG-IP ASM - addressed in versions 14.1.5.3, 15.1.8, 16.1.3.3, 17.0.0.2