CVE-2019-6616 - Improper Access Control

Severity

65%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

106%

On BIG-IP 14.0.0-14.1.0.1, 13.0.0-13.1.1.4, 12.1.0-12.1.4, 11.6.1-11.6.3.4, and 11.5.2-11.5.8, administrative users with TMSH access can overwrite critical system files on BIG-IP which can result in bypass of whitelist / blacklist restrictions enforced by appliance mode.

On BIG-IP 14.0.0-14.1.0.1, 13.0.0-13.1.1.4, 12.1.0-12.1.4, 11.6.1-11.6.3.4, and 11.5.2-11.5.8, administrative users with TMSH access can overwrite critical system files on BIG-IP which can result in bypass of whitelist / blacklist restrictions enforced by appliance mode.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

F5

First reported 5 years ago

2019-05-03 20:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-05-13 12:29:00

Affected Software

F5 Big-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

F5 Big-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)

F5 Big-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM)

F5 Big-IP Link Controller

F5 Big-IP Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM)

F5 Big-IP WebAccelerator

F5 Big-IP Application Security Manager (ASM)

F5 Networks Big-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

F5 Big-IP Fraud Protection Service (FPS)

F5 Big-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)

F5 Big-IP Analytics

F5 Big-IP Edge Gateway

F5 Big-IP Domain Name System (DNS)

References

108298

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K82814400

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