CVE-2017-6164

high F5
CVSS v3 Base Score
8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
2.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 15% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: December 21, 2017 (3065 days ago)
Last Modified: May 13, 2026
Vendor: F5
Source: NVD

Description

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator and WebSafe software version 13.0.0, 12.0.0 - 12.1.2, 11.6.0 - 11.6.1 and 11.5.0 - 11.5.4, in some circumstances, Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) does not properly handle certain malformed TLS1.2 records, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or possible remote command execution on the BIG-IP system.

CWE

CWE-20

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 dnsf5 big-ip global traffic managerf5 big-ip link controllerf5 big-ip policy enforcement manager

References

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