Denial of service in BIG-IP Advanced WAF and ASM bd process



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2023-23552
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		BIG-IP ASM
Hardware solutions / Security hardware applicances

Vendor F5 Networks

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU71787

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-2023-23552

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to system does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the bd process. A remote attacker can send specially crafted traffic to the device and cause increase in memory resource utilization, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition of the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) process.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

BIG-IP ASM: 14.1.0 - 17.0.0.1

CPE2.3 External links

http://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K17542533


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

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

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

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



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