F5 BIG-IP/BIG-IQ iControl REST Worker command injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ. Affected is an unknown function of the component iControl REST Worker. The manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-6620. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ (Firewall Software) (version now known). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component iControl REST Worker. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

On BIG-IP 14.1.0-14.1.0.5, 14.0.0-14.0.0.5, 13.0.0-13.1.1.4, 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, and 11.5.1-11.6.4 and BIG-IQ 6.0.0-6.1.0 and 5.1.0-5.4.0, an undisclosed iControl REST worker vulnerable to command injection for an Administrator user.

The weakness was presented 07/02/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared at support.f5.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-6620 since 01/22/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/15/2023). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Firewall Software

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• F5

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• BIG-IP
• BIG-IQ

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://f5.com/

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