VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6147

medium
Published 2017-09-18 · 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, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.1.2-HF1 and 13.0.0, an undisclosed type of responses may cause TMM to restart, causing an interruption of service when "SSL Forward Proxy" setting is enabled in both the Client and Server SSL profiles assigned to a BIG-IP Virtual Server.

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_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_analytics12.1.2
f5big-ip_analytics13.0.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_application_security_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_domain_name_system12.1.2
f5big-ip_domain_name_system13.0.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.2
f5big-ip_link_controller13.0.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.2
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_websafe12.1.2
f5big-ip_websafe13.0.0

References

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

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