CVE-2017-6145

high F5
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score
0.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 41% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Published: October 20, 2017 (3127 days ago)
Last Modified: May 13, 2026
Vendor: F5
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

CWE-613

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 domain name systemf5 big-ip link controllerf5 big-ip local traffic managerf5 big-ip policy enforcement managerf5 big-ip websafe

References

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