QID 375777

Date Published: 2021-08-17

QID 375777: F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager(ASM), Local Traffic Manager(LTM),Access Policy Manager(APM) D-Bus Vulnerability (K16729408)

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.

An issue was discovered in dbus >= 1.3.0 before 1.12.18. The DBusServer in libdbus, as used in dbus-daemon, leaks file descriptors when a message exceeds the per-message file descriptor limit. A local attacker with access to the D-Bus system bus or another system service's private AF_UNIX socket could use this to make the system service reach its file descriptor limit, denying service to subsequent D-Bus clients. (CVE-2020-12049)

Vulnerable Component: BIG-IP ASM, APM,LTM

Affected Versions:
16.0.0 - 16.1.0
15.1.0 - 15.1.3
14.1.0 - 14.1.4

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

A local attacker may cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack or threaten the availability of the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.9 severity.
  • Solution
    The vendor has released patch, for more information please visit: K16729408
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