{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6169 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6169 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2017-6169 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Policy Enforcement Manager, published on 6 Feb 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-2017-6169 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-6169 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Policy Enforcement Manager, published on 6 Feb 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-2017-6169 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: F5 Big-Ip Policy Enforcement 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-2017-6169/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6169/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-6169","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6169/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-6169","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-gfm6-wg4x-3jvg"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"F5 BIG-IP PEM","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Malformed URLs trigger a crash in the Traffic Management Microkernel when URL categorization is enabled, causing a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"f5","cpe":[{"product":"big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager","vendor":"f5"}],"cvss":{"score":6.8,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"In versions 13.0.0, 12.0.0-12.1.3, or 11.6.0-11.6.2, an F5 BIG-IP virtual server using the URL categorization feature may cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to produce a core file when it receives malformed URLs during categorization.","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 PEM","id":"CVE-2017-6169","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"f5:big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager","products":["f5:big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.","id":"CVE-2017-6170"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Weak cryptography in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-6168"},"products":["BIG-IP PEM"],"published":"2018-02-06","related":[{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"BIG-IP PEM vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-35995","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-05-07"},{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"BIG-IP PEM Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-22891","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-02-05"},{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"BIG-IP PEM vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-24497","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-02-05"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"BIG-IP PEM vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-23982","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-14"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of service in BIG-IP (PEM)","id":"CVE-2020-5942","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-11-05"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of service in BIG-IP PEM","id":"CVE-2019-6628","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-07-03"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of service in BIG-IP (PEM)","id":"CVE-2018-5503","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-03-22"}],"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":"Malformed URLs trigger a crash in the Traffic Management Microkernel when URL categorization is enabled, causing a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6169/"}