F5 Networks BIG-IP : Apache vulnerability (K00373024)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110056

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

Apache HTTP Server, in all releases prior to 2.2.32 and 2.4.25, was liberal in the whitespace accepted from requests and sent in response lines and headers. Accepting these different behaviors represented a security concern when httpd participates in any chain of proxies or interacts with back-end application servers, either through mod_proxy or using conventional CGI mechanisms, and may result in request smuggling, response splitting and cache pollution. (CVE-2016-8743)

Impact

An attacker may be able to perform HTTP request smuggling through specially crafted HTTP requests. For more information about HTTP request smuggling, refer to Section 9.5 Request Smuggling of Internet Engineering Task Force (RFC 7230).

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Solution

Upgrade to one of the non-vulnerable versions listed in the F5 Solution K00373024.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110056

File Name: f5_bigip_SOL00373024.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: F5 Networks Local Security Checks

Published: 5/24/2018

Updated: 10/3/2024

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8743

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_link_controller, cpe:/h:f5:big-ip_protocol_security_manager, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_application_visibility_and_reporting, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager, cpe:/h:f5:big-ip, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_access_policy_manager, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_global_traffic_manager, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_application_acceleration_manager, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_webaccelerator

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Settings/ParanoidReport, Host/BIG-IP/hotfix, Host/BIG-IP/modules, Host/BIG-IP/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8743

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