CVE-2016-7468

medium F5
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.9%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 24% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: March 23, 2017 (3338 days ago)
Last Modified: May 13, 2026
Vendor: F5
Source: NVD

Description

An unauthenticated remote attacker may be able to disrupt services on F5 BIG-IP 11.4.1 - 11.5.4 devices with maliciously crafted network traffic. This vulnerability affects virtual servers associated with TCP profiles when the BIG-IP system's tm.tcpprogressive db variable value is set to non-default setting "enabled". The default value for the tm.tcpprogressive db variable is "negotiate". An attacker may be able to disrupt traffic or cause the BIG-IP system to fail over to another device in the device group.

CWE

CWE-284

Affected Products

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

References

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