CVE-2020-5934 Denial of service in BIG-IP APM

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

Disrupts traffic to TMM via multiple HTTP requests on SAML SLO URLs, affecting BIG-IP APM availability.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-5934?

CVE-2020-5934 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 29 Oct 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

On BIG-IP APM 15.1.0-15.1.0.5, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, and 13.1.0-13.1.3.3, when multiple HTTP requests from the same client to configured SAML Single Logout (SLO) URL are passing through a TCP Keep-Alive connection, traffic to TMM can be disrupted.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5934?

It affects 1 product.

Products include F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2020-5934?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5934 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-2020-5934 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5934 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-j74v-h38w-f7cg.

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