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CVE-2017-6145 — F5 Big-Ip Access Policy Manager security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

iControl REST in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.0.0 through 12.1.2 and 13.0.0 includes a service to convert authorization BIGIPAuthCookie cookies to X-F5-Auth-Token tokens. This service does not properly re-validate cookies when making that conversion, allowing once-valid but now expired cookies to be converted to valid tokens.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (2.0)
Published
2017-10-20
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-613

Affected products

  • f5 / big-ip_access_policy_manager / 12.1.0
  • f5 / big-ip_access_policy_manager / 12.1.1
  • f5 / big-ip_access_policy_manager / 12.1.2
  • f5 / big-ip_access_policy_manager / 13.0.0
  • f5 / big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager / 12.1.0
  • f5 / big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager / 12.1.1

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Check exposure

  • Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
  • Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
  • Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.

Remediate safely

  • Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
  • Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
  • Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.

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