VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8240

high
Published 2016-04-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and BIG-IP PEM before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.0 HF6 and BIG-IP PSM before 11.4.1 HF10 does not properly handle TCP options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the tm.minpathmtu database variable.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_analytics11.4.1
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.3
f5big-ip_analytics11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.4.1
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.3
f5big-ip_link_controller11.6.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.4.1

References

CWEs

CWE-19

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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