CVE-2017-6156

When the F5 BIG-IP 12.1.0-12.1.1, 11.6.0-11.6.1, 11.5.1-11.5.5, or 11.2.1 system is configured with a wildcard IPSec tunnel endpoint, it may allow a remote attacker to disrupt or impersonate the tunnels that have completed phase 1 IPSec negotiations. The attacker must possess the necessary credentials to negotiate the phase 1 of the IPSec exchange to exploit this vulnerability; in many environment this limits the attack surface to other endpoints under the same administration.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.4 Medium

Status

Modified - f5sirt@f5.com

Published

2018-04-13

Last modified

2024-09-16

Affected products

• Big-ip Access Policy Manager (F5)
• Big-ip Advanced Firewall Manager (F5)
• Big-ip Analytics (F5)
• Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager (F5)
• Big-ip Application Security Manager (F5)
• Big-ip Domain Name System (F5)
• Big-ip Edge Gateway (F5)
• Big-ip Global Traffic Manager (F5)
• Big-ip Link Controller (F5)
• Big-ip Local Traffic Manager (F5)
• Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager (F5)
• Big-ip Webaccelerator (F5)
• Big-ip Websafe (F5)
• Aam (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Afm (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Analytics (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Apm (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Asm (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Big-ip Ltm (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Dns (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Edge Gateway (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Gtm (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Link Controller (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Pem (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Webaccelerator (F5 Networks Inc.)
• Websafe (F5 Networks Inc.)

References

• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05263202