CVE-2016-4545

high

Published 2016-06-07 · 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

Virtual servers in F5 BIG-IP 11.5.4, when SSL profiles are enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and Traffic Management Microkernel restart) via an SSL alert during the handshake.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
f5	big-ip_application_acceleration_manager	`11.5.4`
f5	big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager	`11.5.4`
f5	big-ip_local_traffic_manager	`11.5.4`
f5	big-ip_analytics	`11.5.4`
f5	big-ip_global_traffic_manager	`11.5.4`
f5	big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager	`11.5.4`
f5	big-ip_link_controller	`11.5.4`
f5	big-ip_access_policy_manager	`11.5.4`
f5	big-ip_application_security_manager	`11.5.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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