F5 BIG-IP up to 14.1.0.5 SNMP information disclosure

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in F5 BIG-IP up to 14.1.0.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component SNMP. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-6640. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in F5 BIG-IP up to 14.1.0.5 (Firewall Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component SNMP. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

On BIG-IP 14.1.0-14.1.0.5, 14.0.0-14.0.0.4, 13.0.0-13.1.1.4, 12.1.0-12.1.4, 11.6.1-11.6.3.4, and 11.5.1-11.5.8, SNMP exposes sensitive configuration objects over insecure transmission channels. This issue is exposed when a passphrase is inserted into various profile types and accessed using SNMPv2.

The weakness was shared 07/03/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.f5.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-6640 since 01/22/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 10/17/2023). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

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

The entries VDB-137325 and VDB-137322 are related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• F5

Name

• BIG-IP

Version

• 11.5.0
• 11.5.1
• 11.5.2
• 11.5.3
• 11.5.4
• 11.5.5
• 11.5.6
• 11.5.7
• 11.5.8
• 11.6.3.0
• 11.6.3.1
• 11.6.3.2
• 11.6.3.3
• 11.6.3.4
• 12.1.0
• 12.1.1
• 12.1.2
• 12.1.3
• 12.1.4
• 13.1.1.0
• 13.1.1.1
• 13.1.1.2
• 13.1.1.3
• 13.1.1.4
• 14.0.0.0
• 14.0.0.1
• 14.0.0.2
• 14.0.0.3
• 14.0.0.4
• 14.1.0.0
• 14.1.0.1
• 14.1.0.2
• 14.1.0.3
• 14.1.0.4
• 14.1.0.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://f5.com/

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