F5 BIG-IP/BIG-IQ High Availability inadequate encryption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ. This affects an unknown function of the component High Availability. This manipulation causes inadequate encryption. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2020-5860. 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) (affected version not known). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component High Availability. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a inadequate encryption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-326. The product stores or transmits sensitive data using an encryption scheme that is theoretically sound, but is not strong enough for the level of protection required. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.1.0.2, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.2, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1 and BIG-IQ 7.0.0, 6.0.0-6.1.0, and 5.2.0-5.4.0, in a High Availability (HA) network failover in Device Service Cluster (DSC), the failover service does not require a strong form of authentication and HA network failover traffic is not encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS).

The weakness was presented 03/27/2020. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-5860 since 01/06/2020. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/28/2020). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1600 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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Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• F5

Name

• BIG-IP
• BIG-IQ

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://f5.com/

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