Denial of service in F5 BIG-IQ DCD

1) Input validation error

EUVDB-ID: #VU51416

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-22996

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can send specially crafted message to the BIG-IQ Data Collection Device (DCD) cluster member that was set up for auto failover and cause the corosync process to abort, which leads to a denial of service.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

BIG-IQ Centralized Management: 7.0.0 - 7.1.0.3

External links

http://support.f5.com/csp/article/K16352404

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.