VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6145

high
Published 2017-10-20 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.3

Description

iControl REST in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.0.0 through 12.1.2 and 13.0.0 includes a service to convert authorization BIGIPAuthCookie cookies to X-F5-Auth-Token tokens. This service does not properly re-validate cookies when making that conversion, allowing once-valid but now expired cookies to be converted to valid tokens.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
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_access_policy_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.0
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.1
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.2
f5big-ip_analytics13.0.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_application_security_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.0
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.1
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.2
f5big-ip_domain_name_system13.0.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.1
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.2
f5big-ip_link_controller13.0.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.0
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.1
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.2
f5big-ip_websafe13.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-613

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

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