CVE-2023-43125 - Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Severity

68%

Complexity

16%

Confidentiality

86%

BIG-IP APM clients may send IP traffic outside of the VPN tunnel.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N).

Demo Examples

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CWE-319

The following code attempts to establish a connection to a site to communicate sensitive information.


               
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hu.disconnect();

                     

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Though a connection is successfully made, the connection is unencrypted and it is possible that all sensitive data sent to or received from the server will be read by unintended actors.

Overview

First reported 1 year ago

2023-09-27 16:21:00

Last updated 1 year ago

2023-10-02 17:02:00

Affected Software

F5 Big-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)

References

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000136909

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000136909

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