{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6142 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6142 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2017-6142 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Advanced Firewall Manager, published on 19 Jan 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-6142 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-6142 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Advanced Firewall Manager, published on 19 Jan 2018. 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-2017-6142 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-2017-6142/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6142/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-6142","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6142/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-6142","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-9hw6-rw67-875g"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"F5 BIG-IP AFM","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can bypass X509 certificate verification in the user ID feature, allowing them to impersonate remote servers on affected F5 BIG-IP AFM devices.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"security_feature_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"f5","cpe":[{"product":"big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager","vendor":"f5"}],"cvss":{"score":4.8,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-295","name":"Improper Certificate Validation"}],"description":"X509 certificate verification was not correctly implemented in the early access \"user id\" feature in the F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager versions 13.0.0, 12.1.0-12.1.2, and 11.6.0-11.6.2, and thus did not properly validate the remote server's identity on certain versions of BIG-IP.","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":"Security feature bypass in BIG-IP AFM","id":"CVE-2017-6142","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager","products":["f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager"],"type":"security_feature_bypass","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Security feature bypass in BIG-IP (AFM, ASM)","id":"CVE-2017-6143"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, APM, ASM, Link Controller, PEM, WebSafe","id":"CVE-2017-6141"},"products":["BIG-IP AFM"],"published":"2018-01-19","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":"2024-09-16","vendors":["F5 Networks, Inc."]},"summary":"Attackers can bypass X509 certificate verification in the user ID feature, allowing them to impersonate remote servers on affected F5 BIG-IP AFM devices.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6142/"}