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F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP crypto driver vulnerability (K43815022)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136138

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Synopsis

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

Description

Under certain conditions, the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) cryptography driver may produce a Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) core file. (CVE-2020-5882)

Impact

The BIG-IP system temporarily fails to process traffic as it recovers from TMM restarting, and systems configured as part of a high availability (HA) group may fail over.This vulnerability applies to the following platforms :

i4000, i4600, i4800, YK i4000

i5000, i5600, i5800, HRC-i5000, HRC-i5800, i5820-DF

i7000, i7600, i7800, i7000-D, i7820-DF

i10000, i10600, i10800, i10000-D, HRC-i10800

i11000, i11600, i11800, i11000-DS, i11000-D

i15000, i15600, i15800, i15000-N

VIPRION B4400N blade

BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE)

Note : BIG-IP VE cryptographic and compression offload is a licensed feature available only on the KVM hypervisor. If you have licensed this feature(a BIG-IP VE using the affected Intel QAT hardware [Lewisburg and Lewis Hill QAT devices]with an affected Intel QAT SR-IOV VF driver included in the BIG-IP VE version) then the Intel QAT PF (Lewisburg and Lewis Hill QAT devices) driver installed on the host is vulnerable. Under this very explicit KVM scenario, a BIG-IP VE is vulnerable.

Solution

Upgrade to one of the non-vulnerable versions listed in the F5 Solution K43815022.

See Also

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K43815022

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136138

File Name: f5_bigip_SOL43815022.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 4/30/2020

Updated: 11/2/2023

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

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-2020-5882

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:/a:f5:big-ip_webaccelerator, cpe:/h:f5:big-ip

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: 4/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5882