QID 376404

Date Published: 2022-02-24

QID 376404: F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM), Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Access Policy Manager (APM) Perl Vulnerability (K40508224)

Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.CVE-2020-10878

Vulnerable Component: BIG-IP ASM,LTM,APM

Affected Versions:
16.1.0 - 16.1.1
15.1.0 - 15.1.4
14.1.0 - 14.1.4
13.1.0 - 13.1.4
12.1.0 - 12.1.6
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.

An attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.6 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • Solution
    For more information about patch details please refer to K40508224
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    K40508224 URL Logo support.f5.com/csp/article/K40508224