CVE-2015-8240

high F5
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
1.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 21% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: April 11, 2016 (3684 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: F5
Source: NVD

Description

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and BIG-IP PEM before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.0 HF6 and BIG-IP PSM before 11.4.1 HF10 does not properly handle TCP options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the tm.minpathmtu database variable.

CWE

CWE-19

Affected Products

f5 big-ip access policy managerf5 big-ip advanced firewall managerf5 big-ip analyticsf5 big-ip application acceleration managerf5 big-ip application security managerf5 big-ip global traffic managerf5 big-ip link controllerf5 big-ip local traffic managerf5 big-ip policy enforcement managerf5 big-ip protocol security module

References

🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 support.f5.com 🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 support.f5.com