CVE-2015-7759

low

Published 2016-01-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

3.7

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v2

4.3

VIR risk

3.7

Description

BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, Link Controller, and PEM 12.0.0 before HF1, when the TCP profile for a virtual server is configured with Congestion Metrics Cache enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) restart) via crafted ICMP packets, related to Path MTU (PMTU) discovery.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

47%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/k/22/sol22843911.html

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
f5	big-ip_analytics	`12.0.0`
f5	big-ip_application_acceleration_manager	`12.0.0`
f5	big-ip_link_controller	`12.0.0`
f5	big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager	`12.0.0`
f5	big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager	`12.0.0`
f5	big-ip_local_traffic_manager	`12.0.0`
f5	big-ip_access_policy_manager	`12.0.0`
f5	big-ip_application_security_manager	`12.0.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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