TMM Crash Vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP Products
CVE-2018-5522

5.9MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
F5
Status
Big-ip (ltm, Aam, Afm, Analytics, Apm, Asm, Dns, Edge Gateway, Gtm, Link Controller, Pem, Webaccelerator, Websafe)
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 June 2018

Summary

A vulnerability exists in F5 BIG-IP where the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) can crash when processing DIAMETER transactions containing specially crafted attribute-value pairs. This flaw affects various versions of BIG-IP across multiple releases, creating a potential denial of service scenario and impacting the availability of services relying on the affected products.

Affected Version(s)

BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator, WebSafe) 13.0.0

BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator, WebSafe) 12.0.0-12.1.2

BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator, WebSafe) 11.6.1-11.6.3.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104384
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https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K54130510
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.9
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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