VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9245

medium
Published 2017-03-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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
5.9

Description

In F5 BIG-IP systems 12.1.0 - 12.1.2, malicious requests made to virtual servers with an HTTP profile can cause the TMM to restart. The issue is exposed with BIG-IP APM profiles, regardless of settings. The issue is also exposed with the non-default "Normalize URI" configuration options used in iRules and/or BIG-IP LTM policies. An attacker may be able to disrupt traffic or cause the BIG-IP system to fail over to another device in the device group.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
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_local_traffic_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.0
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.1
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.2
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.0
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.1
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.2
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.1
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.2
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.0
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.1
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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

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