CVE-2022-1468 Denial of service in BIG-IP

Medium 4.3 Published 5 May 2022 Updated 16 Sep 2024

An authenticated guest user can cause processing delays in iControl REST requests, leading to a denial of service on F5 BIG-IP devices.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2022-1468?

CVE-2022-1468 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager, published on 5 May 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

On all versions of 17.0.x, 16.1.x, 15.1.x, 14.1.x, 13.1.x, 12.1.x, and 11.6.x on F5 BIG-IP, an authenticated iControl REST user with at least guest role privileges can cause processing delays to iControl REST requests via undisclosed requests. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1468?

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-2022-1468?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-1468 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-2022-1468 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1468 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-c337-2crj-5wcm.