VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5023

high
Published 2016-08-26 · 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 systems 11.2.1 HF11 through HF15, 11.4.1 HF4 through HF10, 11.5.3 through 11.5.4, 11.6.0 HF5 through HF7, and 12.0.0, when configured with a TCP profile, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Traffic Management Microkernel restart) via crafted network traffic.

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
VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5big-ip_edge_gateway11.2.1
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.2.1
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.4.1
f5big-ip_analytics11.2.1
f5big-ip_analytics11.4.1
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.3
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.4
f5big-ip_analytics11.6.0
f5big-ip_analytics12.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.0.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_wan_optimization_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.2.1
f5big-ip_link_controller11.4.1
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.3
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.4
f5big-ip_link_controller11.6.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.0.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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

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