CVE-2016-6249

medium

Description

F5 BIG-IP 12.0.0 and 11.5.0 - 11.6.1 REST requests which timeout during user account authentication may log sensitive attributes such as passwords in plaintext to /var/log/restjavad.0.log. It may allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.

References

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12685114

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037873

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-02-20

Updated: 2017-07-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium

Detections

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