Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in F5 BIG-IP APM up to 13.1.1.1/14.0.0.2. This affects an unknown part of the component APM Portal Access. The manipulation as part of Request leads to input validation. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-15324. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in F5 BIG-IP APM up to 13.1.1.1/14.0.0.2 (Firewall Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component APM Portal Access. The manipulation as part of a Request leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

On BIG-IP APM 14.0.0-14.0.0.2 or 13.0.0-13.1.1.1, TMM may restart when processing a specially crafted request with APM portal access.

The bug was discovered 10/31/2018. The weakness was disclosed 10/30/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at support.f5.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-15324 since 08/14/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 118677 (F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP APM portal access vulnerability (K52206731)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family F5 Networks Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 371362 (F5 BIG-IP APM Portal Access Vulnerability (K52206731)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (118677). The entry VDB-126364 is pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Firewall Software

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• F5

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• BIG-IP APM

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• 13.1.1.0
• 13.1.1.1
• 14.0.0.0
• 14.0.0.1
• 14.0.0.2

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• commercial

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