{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 8 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6140 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6140 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2017-6140 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Advanced Firewall Manager, published on 21 Dec 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-6140 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-6140 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Advanced Firewall Manager, published on 21 Dec 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6140 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: F5 Big-Ip Advanced Firewall Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6140/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6140/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-6140","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6140/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-6140","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-cv5w-vcr3-hm3r"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"F5 BIG-IP load balancer","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can cause disruption of data plane services on F5 BIG-IP devices by sending a specific sequence of packets to Virtual Servers with SSL profiles.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"f5","cpe":[{"product":"big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager","vendor":"f5"},{"product":"big-ip_analytics","vendor":"f5"},{"product":"big-ip_application_acceleration_manager","vendor":"f5"},{"product":"big-ip_application_security_manager","vendor":"f5"},{"product":"big-ip_dns","vendor":"f5"},{"product":"big-ip_global_traffic_manager","vendor":"f5"},{"product":"big-ip_local_traffic_manager","vendor":"f5"},{"product":"big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager","vendor":"f5"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"On the BIG-IP 2000s, 2200s, 4000s, 4200v, i5600, i5800, i7600, i7800, i10600,i10800, and VIPRION 4450 blades, running version 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 12.0.0, 12.1.0, 12.1.1 or 12.1.2 of BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, ASM, DNS, GTM or PEM, an undisclosed sequence of packets sent to Virtual Servers with client or server SSL profiles may cause disruption of data plane services.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Denial of service in BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, ASM, DNS, GTM, PEM","id":"CVE-2017-6140","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager","products":["f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager","f5:big-ip_analytics","f5:big-ip_application_acceleration_manager","f5:big-ip_application_security_manager","f5:big-ip_global_traffic_manager","f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager","f5:big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, APM, ASM, Link Controller, PEM, WebSafe","id":"CVE-2017-6141"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Information disclosure in BIG-IP APM","id":"CVE-2017-6139"},"products":["BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, ASM, DNS, GTM, PEM"],"published":"2017-12-21","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"SQL injection in BIG-IP AFM","id":"CVE-2021-23040","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-09-14"},{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"BIG-IP AFM DoS protection profile vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-59478","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-10-15"},{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"BIG-IP AFM vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-24312","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-02-05"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in BIG-IP (AFM, ASM)","id":"CVE-2019-6636","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-07-03"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"BIG-IP AFM vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-21763","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-14"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"F5 AFM Signature Matching Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-21771","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-14"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"BIG-IP AFM vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-22281","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-02-01"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-17","vendors":["F5 Networks, Inc."]},"summary":"An attacker can cause disruption of data plane services on F5 BIG-IP devices by sending a specific sequence of packets to Virtual Servers with SSL profiles.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6140/"}