CVE-2018-5504 (GCVE-0-2018-5504)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-22 18:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:24
VLAI
Summary
In some circumstances, the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) does not properly handle certain malformed Websockets requests/responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or possible remote code execution on the F5 BIG-IP system running versions 13.0.0 - 13.1.0.3 or 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.1.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • DoS & RCE
Assigner
f5 CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 87 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040558 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K11718033 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Date Public
2018-03-21 00:00
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