Denial of service in F5 BIG-IP Python

1) Incorrect Regular Expression

EUVDB-ID: #VU96745

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.9 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:U/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6232

CWE-ID: CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression

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 .tar archives when processing it with regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

BIG-IP: 15.0.0 - 17.1.1.4

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:h:f5_networks:big-ip:15.1.10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:
• cpe:2.3:h:f5_networks:big-ip:17.1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:
• cpe:2.3:h:f5_networks:big-ip:16.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:
• cpe:2.3:h:f5_networks:big-ip:17.0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:
• cpe:2.3:h:f5_networks:big-ip:16.0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:
• cpe:2.3:h:f5_networks:big-ip:15.0.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:

External links

http://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000148252

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.