F5 Big-ip Domain Name System any version

On BIG-IP DNS 16.0.0-16.0.0.1, 15.1.0-15.1.0.5, 14.1.0-14.1.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.4, and 12.1.0-12.1.5.2, undisclosed series of DNS requests may cause TMM to restart and generate a core file.

On BIG-IP 15.1.0-15.1.0.5 and 14.1.0-14.1.3, crafted TLS request to the BIG-IP management interface via port 443 can cause high (~100%) CPU utilization by the httpd daemon.

On versions 15.1.0-15.1.0.5, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.4, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.6.1-11.6.5.1, when a BIG-IP system that has a virtual server configured with an HTTP compression profile processes compressed HTTP message payloads that require deflation, a Slowloris-style attack can trigger an out-of-memory condition on the BIG-IP system.

On BIG-IP versions 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.1.0-14.1.2, 14.0.0-14.0.1, 13.1.0-13.1.3.2, 12.1.0-12.1.5, and 11.5.2-11.6.5, while processing traffic through a standard virtual server that targets a FastL4 virtual server (VIP on VIP), hardware appliances may stop responding.

The inode_init_owner function in fs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16 allows local users to create files with an unintended group ownership, in a scenario where a directory is SGID to a certain group and is writable by a user who is not a member of that group. Here, the non-member can trigger creation of a plain file whose group ownership is that group. The intended behavior was that the non-member can trigger creation of a directory (but not a plain file) whose group ownership is that group. The non-member can escalate privileges by making the plain file executable and SGID.

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1.2, 14.1.0-14.1.2.2, 13.1.0-13.1.3.2, 12.1.0-12.1.5, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1 and BIG-IQ 7.0.0, 6.0.0-6.1.0, and 5.2.0-5.4.0, users with non-administrator roles (for example, Guest or Resource Administrator) with tmsh shell access can execute arbitrary commands with elevated privilege via a crafted tmsh command.

On BIG-IP versions 15.0.0-15.0.1.1, 14.1.0-14.1.2.2, 14.0.0-14.0.1, 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, 12.1.0-12.1.5, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1, users with access to edit iRules are able to create iRules which can lead to an elevation of privilege, configuration modification, and arbitrary system command execution.

BIG-IP Edge Client for macOS vulnerability

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

SACK can cause extensive memory use via fragmented resend queue

Jonathan Looney discovered that the Linux kernel default MSS is hard-coded to 48 bytes. This allows a remote peer to fragment TCP resend queues significantly more than if a larger MSS were enforced. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This has been fixed in stable kernel releases 4.4.182, 4.9.182, 4.14.127, 4.19.52, 5.1.11, and is fixed in commits 967c05aee439e6e5d7d805e195b3a20ef5c433d6 and 5f3e2bf008c2221478101ee72f5cb4654b9fc363.

The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows remote attackers (from the client side) to send arbitrary numbers that are actually not public keys, and trigger expensive server-side DHE modular-exponentiation calculations, aka a D(HE)at or D(HE)ater attack. The client needs very little CPU resources and network bandwidth. The attack may be more disruptive in cases where a client can require a server to select its largest supported key size. The basic attack scenario is that the client must claim that it can only communicate with DHE, and the server must be configured to allow DHE.

Limiting simultaneous TCP clients was ineffective

The OSPFv3 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-ospf6.c:ospf6_print_lshdr().

The FRF.16 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-fr.c:mfr_print().

On F5 BIG-IP 13.1.0-13.1.0.5, maliciously crafted HTTP/2 request frames can lead to denial of service. There is data plane exposure for virtual servers when the HTTP2 profile is enabled. There is no control plane exposure to this issue.

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/packet.c by restricting the number of layers and consequently limiting recursion.

On F5 BIG-IP 14.0.0, 13.0.0-13.1.0, 12.1.0-12.1.3, or 11.5.1-11.6.3 specifically crafted HTTP responses, when processed by a Virtual Server with an associated QoE profile that has Video enabled, may cause TMM to incorrectly buffer response data causing the TMM to restart resulting in a Denial of Service.

On BIG-IP 14.1.0-14.1.0.5, 14.0.0-14.0.0.4, 13.0.0-13.1.1.4, and 12.1.0-12.1.4, undisclosed traffic sent to BIG-IP iSession virtual server may cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to restart, resulting in a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

On BIG-IP 11.5.1-11.6.4, iRules performing HTTP header manipulation may cause an interruption to service when processing traffic handled by a Virtual Server with an associated HTTP profile, in specific circumstances, when the requests do not strictly conform to RFCs.

On BIG-IP 14.0.x, 13.x, 12.x, and 11.x, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ 6.x, 5.x, and 4.x, and iWorkflow 2.x, the passphrases for SNMPv3 users and trap destinations that are used for authentication and privacy are not handled by the BIG-IP system Secure Vault feature; they are written in the clear to the various configuration files.

In BIG-IP 11.5.1-11.5.8 and 11.6.1-11.6.3, the Configuration Utility login page may not follow best security practices when handling a malicious request.

When 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 are processing certain rare data sequences occurring in PPTP VPN traffic, the BIG-IP system may execute incorrect logic. The TMM may restart and produce a core file as a result of this condition. The BIG-IP system provisioned with the CGNAT module and configured with a virtual server using a PPTP profile is exposed to this vulnerability.

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, DNS query TCP connections that are aborted before receiving a response from a DNS cache may cause TMM to restart.

On F5 BIG-IP 13.1.0-13.1.0.3, 13.0.0, 12.1.0-12.1.3.3, 11.6.1-11.6.3.1, 11.5.1-11.5.5, or 11.2.1, a malformed TLS handshake causes TMM to crash leading to a disruption of service. This issue is only exposed on the data plane when Proxy SSL configuration is enabled. The control plane is not impacted by this issue.

Under certain conditions on F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0, 12.1.0-12.1.2, 11.6.0-11.6.3.1, or 11.5.0-11.5.6, TMM may core while processing SSL forward proxy traffic.

Under certain conditions on F5 BIG-IP 13.1.0-13.1.0.5, 13.0.0, 12.1.0-12.1.3.1, 11.6.0-11.6.3.1, or 11.5.0-11.5.6, TMM may core while processing SSL forward proxy traffic.

On F5 BIG-IP 13.1.0-13.1.0.5, malformed TCP packets sent to a self IP address or a FastL4 virtual server may cause an interruption of service. The control plane is not exposed to this issue. This issue impacts the data plane virtual servers and self IPs.

In BIG-IP 14.0.0-14.0.0.2, 13.0.0-13.1.1.5, 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, and 11.2.1-11.6.3.2, an attacker sending specially crafted SSL records to a SSL Virtual Server will cause corruption in the SSL data structures leading to intermittent decrypt BAD_RECORD_MAC errors. Clients will be unable to access the application load balanced by a virtual server with an SSL profile until tmm is restarted.

On versions 14.1.0-14.1.0.5, 14.0.0-14.0.0.4, 13.0.0-13.1.2, 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, and 11.5.2-11.6.4, an attacker sending specifically crafted DHCPv6 requests through a BIG-IP virtual server configured with a DHCPv6 profile may be able to cause the TMM process to produce a core file.

On BIG-IP 14.0.0-14.1.0.5, 13.0.0-13.1.2, 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, 11.5.2-11.6.4, FTP traffic passing through a Virtual Server with both an active FTP profile associated and connection mirroring configured may lead to a TMM crash causing the configured HA action to be taken.

On BIG-IP 14.0.0-14.0.0.2 or 13.0.0-13.1.1.1, undisclosed traffic patterns may lead to denial of service conditions for the BIG-IP system. The configuration which exposes this condition is the BIG-IP self IP address which is part of a VLAN group and has the Port Lockdown setting configured with anything other than "allow-all".

On F5 BIG-IP versions 13.0.0 - 13.1.0.3, attackers may be able to disrupt services on the BIG-IP system with maliciously crafted client certificate. This vulnerability affects virtual servers associated with Client SSL profile which enables the use of client certificate authentication. Client certificate authentication is not enabled by default in Client SSL profile. There is no control plane exposure.

On BIG-IP 14.1.0-14.1.0.5, 14.0.0-14.0.0.4, 13.0.0-13.1.1.4, and 12.1.0-12.1.4, an undisclosed traffic pattern sent to a BIG-IP UDP virtual server may lead to a denial-of-service (DoS).

On BIG-IP 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 14.0.0-14.0.1, 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, and 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, when processing TLS traffic with hardware cryptographic acceleration enabled on platforms with Intel QAT hardware, the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) may stop responding and cause a failover event.

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1 and 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, under certain conditions, the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) may generate a core file and restart while processing SSL traffic with an HTTP/2 full proxy.

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.1.0.1, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.3, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.6.1-11.6.5.1, malformed input to the DATAGRAM::tcp iRules command within a FLOW_INIT event may lead to a denial of service.

On versions 15.0.0-15.1.0.1, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, and 13.1.0-13.1.3.3, when the BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) is configured with VLAN groups and there are devices configured with OSPF connected to it, the Network Device Abstraction Layer (NDAL) Interfaces can lock up and in turn disrupting the communication between the mcpd and tmm processes.

On BIG-IP 14.1.0-14.1.0.5, undisclosed SSL traffic to a virtual server configured with a Client SSL profile may cause TMM to fail and restart. The Client SSL profile must have session tickets enabled and use DHE cipher suites to be affected. This only impacts the data plane, there is no impact to the control plane.

TMM vulnerability CVE-2022-34862