CVE-2020-5872 Denial of service in BIG-IP

What is CVE-2020-5872?

CVE-2020-5872 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 30 Apr 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

On BIG-IP 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 14.0.0-14.0.1, 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, and 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, when processing TLS traffic with hardware cryptographic acceleration enabled on platforms with Intel QAT hardware, the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) may stop responding and cause a failover event.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5872?

It affects 11 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 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-5872?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5872 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-2020-5872 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5872 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 Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-1388 F5 BIG-IP Missing Authentication Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-22986 F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Centralized Management iControl REST Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-22991 F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management Microkernel Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-5902 F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-93h9-v8g8-jrg6.