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VAR-201807-2205

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2024-11-23 22:34

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.0.1, 12.1.0-12.1.3.3, 11.6.0-11.6.3.1, or 11.5.1-11.5.6, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.0.0-5.1.0, BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0, or F5 iWorkflow 2.1.0-2.3.0 the big3d process does not irrevocably minimize group privileges at start up. plural F5 The product contains vulnerabilities related to authorization, permissions, and access control.Information may be obtained. F5 BIG-IP big3d Process is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Local attackers may exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges. F5 BIG-IP and so on are all products of F5 Company in the United States. F5 BIG-IP is an all-in-one network device that integrates functions such as network traffic management, application security management, and load balancing. Enterprise Manager is a tool that provides visibility into the entire BIG-IP application delivery infrastructure and optimizes application performance. Security flaws exist in several F5 products. The vulnerability stems from the fact that the big3d process does not remove elevated group privileges at startup

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CVE-2018-5540 (GCVE-0-2018-5540)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-19 14:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:36

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Privilege escalation

Assigner

f5 CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 87 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

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https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K82038789	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104920	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041341	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Impacted products

5 products

Vendor	Product	Version
F5 Networks, Inc.	BIG-IP (DNS, GTM)	Affected: 13.0.0-13.0.1 Affected: 12.1.0-12.1.3.3 Affected: 11.6.0-11.6.3.1 Affected: 11.5.1-11.5.6
F5 Networks, Inc.	Enterprise Manager	Affected: 3.1.1
F5 Networks, Inc.	BIG-IQ Centralized Management	Affected: 5.0.0-5.1.0
F5 Networks, Inc.	BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration	Affected: 1.0.0
F5 Networks, Inc.	F5 iWorkflow	Affected: 2.1.0-2.3.0

Date Public

2018-07-18 00:00

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.

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