F5 BIG-IP up to 14.1.0.5 Management Interface Memory resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in F5 BIG-IP up to 11.6.4/12.1.4.1/13.1.2/14.0.0.4/14.1.0.5. It has been declared as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Management Interface. Such manipulation leads to resource consumption (Memory). This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2019-6647. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in F5 BIG-IP up to 11.6.4/12.1.4.1/13.1.2/14.0.0.4/14.1.0.5 (Firewall Software). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability (Memory). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

On BIG-IP 14.1.0-14.1.0.5, 14.0.0-14.0.0.4, 13.0.0-13.1.2, 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, 11.5.2-11.6.4, when processing authentication attempts for control-plane users MCPD leaks a small amount of memory. Under rare conditions attackers with access to the management interface could eventually deplete memory on the system.

The weakness was released 09/04/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-6647 since 01/22/2019. 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 structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/13/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-141264, VDB-141263 and VDB-141262. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• F5

Name

• BIG-IP

Version

• 11.6.0
• 11.6.1
• 11.6.2
• 11.6.3
• 11.6.4
• 12.1.4.0
• 12.1.4.1
• 13.1.0
• 13.1.1
• 13.1.2
• 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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