VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6162

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Published 2017-10-27 · 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
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, Websafe software version 12.0.0 to 12.1.2, 11.6.0 to 11.6.1, 11.4.0 to 11.5.4, 11.2.1, in some cases TMM may crash when processing TCP traffic. This vulnerability affects TMM via a virtual server configured with TCP profile. Traffic processing is disrupted while Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) restarts. If the affected BIG-IP system is configured to be part of a device group, it will trigger a failover to the peer device.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
—

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":"11.5.0","endIncluding":"11.5.4"}
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager{"startIncluding":"11.5.0","endIncluding":"11.5.4"}
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager{"startIncluding":"11.5.0","endIncluding":"11.5.4"}
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager{"startIncluding":"11.5.0","endIncluding":"11.5.4"}
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager{"startIncluding":"11.5.0","endIncluding":"11.5.4"}
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_link_controller{"startIncluding":"11.5.0","endIncluding":"11.5.4"}
f5big-ip_link_controller11.2.1
f5big-ip_link_controller11.6.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.6.1
f5big-ip_link_controller12.0.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.0
f5big-ip_link_controller12.1.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager{"startIncluding":"11.5.0","endIncluding":"11.5.4"}
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.2.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.6.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.0.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager12.1.1
f5big-ip_websafe1.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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