CVE-2017-6129 Denial of service in BIG-IP APM
An attacker can disrupt traffic or cause system failover by triggering premature flow freeing in F5 BIG-IP APM VPN tunnels.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-6129?
CVE-2017-6129 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 21 Dec 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In F5 BIG-IP APM software version 13.0.0 and 12.1.2, in some circumstances, APM tunneled VPN flows can cause a VPN/PPP connflow to be prematurely freed or cause TMM to stop responding with a "flow not in use" assertion. An attacker may be able to disrupt traffic or cause the BIG-IP system to fail over to another device in the device group.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6129?
It affects 1 product.
Products include F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager.
How do I fix CVE-2017-6129?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6129 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-6129 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6129 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager
- CVE-2023-46747 F5 BIG-IP Configuration Utility Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2022-1388 F5 BIG-IP Missing Authentication
- CVE-2021-22986 F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Centralized Management iControl REST Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2021-22991 F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management Microkernel Buffer Overflow
- CVE-2020-5902 F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) Remote Code Execution
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xg29-xvm5-p526.