F5 BIG-IP up to 15.1.9 Traffic Management Microkernel memory leak

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in F5 BIG-IP up to 15.1.9. This affects an unknown part of the component Traffic Management Microkernel. This manipulation causes memory leak. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-32761. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in F5 BIG-IP up to 15.1.9 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Traffic Management Microkernel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory leak vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-401. The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Under certain conditions, a data leak may occur in the Traffic Management Microkernels (TMMs) of BIG-IP tenants running on VELOS and rSeries platforms. This leak occurs randomly and cannot be deliberately triggered. If it occurs, it may leak up to 64 bytes of non-contiguous randomized bytes. Under rare conditions, this may lead to a TMM restart, affecting availability.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

It is possible to read the advisory at my.f5.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-32761 since 04/24/2024. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 15.1.10 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Class: Memory leak
CWE: CWE-401 / CWE-404
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Remote: Yes

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: BIG-IP 15.1.10

Timelineinfo

04/24/2024 🔍
05/08/2024 +14 days 🔍
05/08/2024 +0 days 🔍
02/04/2026 +637 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: f5.com

Advisory: K000139217
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-32761 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-32761
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-263551

Entryinfo

Created: 05/08/2024 16:39
Updated: 02/04/2026 18:53
Changes: 05/08/2024 16:39 (55), 10/21/2025 14:07 (23), 02/03/2026 03:49 (1), 02/04/2026 18:53 (5)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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