CVE-2020-5860 Security feature bypass in BIG-IP, BIG-IQ
Attackers can bypass authentication and intercept unencrypted traffic in F5 BIG-IP High Availability failover clusters if TLS is not configured.
- 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-2020-5860?
CVE-2020-5860 is a high-severity vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 27 Mar 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.1.0.2, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.2, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1 and BIG-IQ 7.0.0, 6.0.0-6.1.0, and 5.2.0-5.4.0, in a High Availability (HA) network failover in Device Service Cluster (DSC), the failover service does not require a strong form of authentication and HA network failover traffic is not encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5860?
It affects 12 products.
Products include F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, 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 Domain Name System and 6 more.
How do I fix CVE-2020-5860?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5860 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-5860 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5860 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-7ch6-8wvc-r28c.