F5 Networks BIG-IP : TMM vulnerability (K94105051)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 118703

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Synopsis

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

Description

A remote attacker may be able to disrupt services on the BIG-IP if the TMM virtual server is configured with a HTML or a Rewrite profile. TMM may restart while processing some specially prepared HTML content from the back end. (CVE-2018-5537)

Impact

The BIG-IP system may temporarily fail to process traffic as it recovers from a Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) restart. If the BIG-IP system is configured for high availability (HA), it fails over to a peer system.

Solution

Upgrade to one of the non-vulnerable versions listed in the F5 Solution K94105051.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 118703

File Name: f5_bigip_SOL94105051.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: F5 Networks Local Security Checks

Published: 11/2/2018

Updated: 11/3/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5537

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5537

Detections

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