CVE-2013-6016

high
Published 2013-10-26 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, APM, ASM, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, and WOM 10.0.0 through 10.2.2 and 11.0.0; Analytics 11.0.0; PSM 9.4.0 through 9.4.8, 10.0.0 through 10.2.4, and 11.0.0 through 11.4.1; and WebAccelerator 9.4.0 through 9.4.8, 10.0.0 through 10.2.4, and 11.0.0 through 11.3.0 might change a TCP connection to the ESTABLISHED state before receiving the ACK packet, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGFPE or assertion failure and TMM restart) via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cret@cert.org — http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/200/sol13233.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cret@cert.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/55378

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager10.0.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager10.0.1
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager10.1.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager10.2.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager10.2.1
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager10.2.2
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.0.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator9.4.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator9.4.1
f5big-ip_webaccelerator9.4.2
f5big-ip_webaccelerator9.4.3
f5big-ip_webaccelerator9.4.4
f5big-ip_webaccelerator9.4.5
f5big-ip_webaccelerator9.4.6
f5big-ip_webaccelerator9.4.7
f5big-ip_webaccelerator9.4.8
f5big-ip_webaccelerator10.0.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator10.0.1
f5big-ip_webaccelerator10.1.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator10.2.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator10.2.1
f5big-ip_webaccelerator10.2.2
f5big-ip_webaccelerator10.2.3
f5big-ip_webaccelerator10.2.4
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.0.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.1.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.2.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.2.1
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.3.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager10.0.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager10.0.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager10.1.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager10.2.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager10.2.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager10.2.2
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager10.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager10.0.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager10.1.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager10.2.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager10.2.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager10.2.2
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.0.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager10.1.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager10.2.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager10.2.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager10.2.2
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.0.0
f5big-ip_wan_optimization_manager10.0.0
f5big-ip_wan_optimization_manager10.0.1
f5big-ip_wan_optimization_manager10.1.0
f5big-ip_wan_optimization_manager10.2.0
f5big-ip_wan_optimization_manager10.2.1
f5big-ip_wan_optimization_manager10.2.2
f5big-ip_wan_optimization_manager11.0.0
f5big-ip_edge_gateway10.1.0
f5big-ip_edge_gateway10.2.0
f5big-ip_edge_gateway10.2.1
f5big-ip_edge_gateway10.2.2
f5big-ip_edge_gateway11.0.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module9.4.5
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module9.4.6
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module9.4.7
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module9.4.8
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module10.0.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module10.0.1
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module10.1.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module10.2.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module10.2.1
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module10.2.2
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module10.2.3
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module10.2.4
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.0.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.1.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.2.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.2.1
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.3.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.4.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.4.1
f5big-ip_link_controller10.0.0
f5big-ip_link_controller10.0.1
f5big-ip_link_controller10.1.0
f5big-ip_link_controller10.2.0
f5big-ip_link_controller10.2.1
f5big-ip_link_controller10.2.2
f5big-ip_link_controller11.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.