QID 375668

Date Published: 2021-06-30

QID 375668: F5 BIG-IP ASM,LTM,APM BIG-IP InfoZIP Vulnerability (K80311892)

F5 BIG-IP ASM (Application Security Manager) is a flexible web application firewall that secures web applications in traditional, virtual, and private cloud environments.
F5 BIG-IP (LTM) Local Traffic Manager is the most popular module offered on F5 Networks BIG-IP platform. The real power of the LTM is it is a Full Proxy, allowing you to augment client and server side connections. All while making informed load balancing decisions on availability, performance, and persistence.
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is a secure, flexible, high-performance solution that provides unified global access to your network, cloud, and applications.

Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 mishandles the overlapping of files inside a ZIP container, leading to denial of service (resource consumption), aka a better zip bomb issue. (CVE-2019-13232)

Vulnerable Component: BIG-IP ASM, APM,LTM

Affected Versions:
15.0.0 - 15.0.1
14.0.0 - 14.1.4
13.1.0 - 13.1.4
12.1.0 - 12.1.6

QID Detection Logic(Authenticated):
This QID checks for the vulnerable versions of F5 BIG-IP devices using the tmsh command.

Local users with administrative access to the BIG-IP Advanced Shell (bash) may be able to perform a resource-consumption denial-of-service (DoS) attack. This attack can only be exploited by uncompressing a ZIP file using the zip or unzip utility from the command line or by a user-generated script. No F5 scripts or utilities call these programs to unpack a ZIP archive.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 3.3 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Low - 2.1 severity.
  • Solution
    The vendor has released patch, for more information please visit: K80311892
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    K80311892 URL Logo support.f5.com/csp/article/K80311892
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