F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP HTTP/3 QUIC vulnerability (K61367237)

high Nessus Plugin ID 134959

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Synopsis

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

Description

Specially formatted HTTP/3 messages may cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to produce a core file. (CVE-2020-5859)

Impact

TMM may restart and temporarily fail to process traffic on BIG-IP hosts with the HTTP/3 QUIC profile configured. High availability (HA) configurations will fail over the the standby host.

Note : Beginning in BIG-IP 15.1.0.1, F5 introducedHTTP/3 and QUIC as an experimental feature. For more information, refer to K60235402:
Overview of the BIG-IP HTTP/3 and QUIC profiles. F5 recommends that you test experimental features only in your staging environment and not in production.

Solution

Upgrade to one of the non-vulnerable versions listed in the F5 Solution K61367237.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 134959

File Name: f5_bigip_SOL61367237.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Family: F5 Networks Local Security Checks

Published: 3/27/2020

Updated: 11/2/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5859

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: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_application_visibility_and_reporting, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_domain_name_system, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_global_traffic_manager, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_link_controller, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager, cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager, 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: 3/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5859

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