QID 375932

Date Published: 2021-10-05

QID 375932: F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM), Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Access Policy Manager (APM) procps-ng Vulnerability (K00409335)

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.

procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the config_file() function. (CVE-2018-1122)

Vulnerable Component: BIG-IP ASM, APM, LTM

Affected Versions:
13.1.0 - 13.1.3
12.1.0 - 12.1.5
11.6.1 - 11.6.5

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

A local attacker can perform privilege escalation and cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or execute malicious code.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.4 severity.
  • Solution
    The vendor has released patch, for more information please visit: K00409335
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 375932

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    K00409335 URL Logo support.f5.com/csp/article/K00409335