VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6136

medium
Published 2017-12-21 · 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 LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, GTM, Link Controller, PEM and WebSafe software version 13.0.0 and 12.0.0 - 12.1.2, undisclosed traffic patterns sent to BIG-IP virtual servers, with the TCP Fast Open and Tail Loss Probe options enabled in the associated TCP profile, may cause a disruption of service to the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM).

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_manager{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_analytics{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_analytics13.0.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_application_security_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_dns{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_dns13.0.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_link_controller{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_link_controller13.0.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_websafe{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endIncluding":"12.1.2"}
f5big-ip_websafe13.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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