VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6164

high
Published 2017-12-21 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.1

Description

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator and WebSafe software version 13.0.0, 12.0.0 - 12.1.2, 11.6.0 - 11.6.1 and 11.5.0 - 11.5.4, in some circumstances, Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) does not properly handle certain malformed TLS1.2 records, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or possible remote command execution on the BIG-IP system.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
88%
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":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_application_acceleration_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_analytics{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.0
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.1
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.2
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.3
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.4
f5big-ip_analytics13.0.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_access_policy_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_application_security_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_dns{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_dns11.5.0
f5big-ip_dns11.5.1
f5big-ip_dns11.5.2
f5big-ip_dns11.5.3
f5big-ip_dns11.5.4
f5big-ip_dns13.0.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_link_controller{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.1
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.2
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.3
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.4
f5big-ip_link_controller13.0.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.3
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.4
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager13.0.0
f5big-ip_websafe{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_websafe11.5.0
f5big-ip_websafe11.5.1
f5big-ip_websafe11.5.2
f5big-ip_websafe11.5.3
f5big-ip_websafe11.5.4
f5big-ip_websafe13.0.0
f5big-ip_edge_gateway{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_edge_gateway11.5.0
f5big-ip_edge_gateway11.5.1
f5big-ip_edge_gateway11.5.2
f5big-ip_edge_gateway11.5.3
f5big-ip_edge_gateway11.5.4
f5big-ip_edge_gateway13.0.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator{"startIncluding":"11.6.0","endIncluding":"11.6.1"}
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.5.0
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.5.1
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.5.2
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.5.3
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.5.4
f5big-ip_webaccelerator13.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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