CVE-2019-6618 - Improper Access Control

Severity

40%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

48%

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, users with the Resource Administrator role can modify sensitive portions of the filesystem if provided Advanced Shell Access, such as editing /etc/passwd. This allows modifications to user objects and 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, users with the Resource Administrator role can modify sensitive portions of the filesystem if provided Advanced Shell Access, such as editing /etc/passwd. This allows modifications to user objects and is contrary to our definition for the Resource Administrator (RA) role restrictions.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

F5

First reported 6 years ago

2019-05-03 20:29:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2019-05-06 14:41:00

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

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K07702240

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