CVE-2017-6168

Summary

CVECVE-2017-6168
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-11-17 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2021-09-23 15:58:00 UTC
DescriptionOn BIG-IP versions 11.6.0-11.6.2 (fixed in 11.6.2 HF1), 12.0.0-12.1.2 HF1 (fixed in 12.1.2 HF2), or 13.0.0-13.0.0 HF2 (fixed in 13.0.0 HF3) a virtual server configured with a Client SSL profile may be vulnerable to an Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) against RSA, which when exploited, may result in plaintext recovery of encrypted messages and/or a Man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack, despite the attacker not having gained access to the server's private key itself, aka a ROBOT attack.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-203

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application F5 Big-ip Aam 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Aam 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Aam All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Aam All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Afm 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Afm 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Afm All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Afm All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Analytics 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Analytics 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Analytics All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Analytics All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Apm 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Apm 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Apm All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Apm All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Asm 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Asm 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Asm All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Asm All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Link Controller 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Link Controller 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Link Controller All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Link Controller All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Ltm 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Ltm 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Ltm All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Ltm All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Pem 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Pem 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Pem All All All All
Application F5 Big-ip Pem All All All All
Application F5 Websafe 11.6.2 All All All
Application F5 Websafe 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Websafe 11.6.2 All All All
Application F5 Websafe 13.0.0 All All All
Application F5 Websafe All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
support.f5.com/csp/article/K21905460 CONFIRM support.f5.com Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
The ROBOT Attack - Return of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat MISC robotattack.org Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
F5 BIG-IP RSA TLS Implementation Lets Remote Users Decrypt Data Communicated By the Target System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
VU#144389 - TLS implementations may disclose side channel information via discrepancies between valid and invalid PKCS#1 padding CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Multiple F5 BIG-IP Products CVE-2017-6168 Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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