CVE-2019-6617

Severity

55%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

81%

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, a user with the Resource Administrator role is able to overwrite sensitive low-level files (such as /etc/passwd) using SFTP to modify user permissions, without Advanced Shell access. This is contrary to our definition for the Resource Administrator (RA) role restrictions.

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, a user with the Resource Administrator role is able to overwrite sensitive low-level files (such as /etc/passwd) using SFTP to modify user permissions, without Advanced Shell access. This is contrary to our definition for the Resource Administrator (RA) role restrictions.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

F5

First reported 5 years ago

2019-05-03 20:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-05-24 18:29:00

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)

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