CVE-2017-6154 Denial of service in BIG-IP ASM
Attackers can cause a denial of service by triggering a core dump in the BIG-IP ASM daemon on systems with many CPU cores.
- 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-2017-6154?
CVE-2017-6154 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Application Security Manager, published on 1 Mar 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
On F5 BIG-IP systems running 13.0.0, 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.1, or 11.6.1 - 11.6.2, the BIG-IP ASM bd daemon may core dump memory under some circumstances when processing undisclosed types of data on systems with 48 or more CPU cores.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6154?
It affects 1 product.
Products include F5 Big-Ip Application Security Manager.
How do I fix CVE-2017-6154?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6154 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-2017-6154 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6154 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in F5 Big-Ip Application Security Manager
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q386-gpj2-x7mv.