QID 376782

Date Published: 2022-08-10

QID 376782: F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM), Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Access Policy Manager (APM) Big-ip Message Routing mqtt Vulnerability cve-2022-35240 (K28405643)

When the Message Routing (MR) Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) profile is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause an increase in memory resource utilization.CVE-2022-35240

Vulnerable Component: BIG-IP ASM,LTM,APM

Affected Versions:
16.1.0 - 16.1.2
15.1.0 - 15.1.6
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.

System performance can degrade until the TMM process is either forced to restart or is manually restarted. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a degradation of service that can lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) on the BIG-IP system. There is no control plane exposure; this is a data plane issue only.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.

Solution

For more information about patch details please refer to K28405643

Vendor References

K28405643 - support.f5.com/csp/article/K28405643

CVEs related to QID 376782

CVE-2022-35240 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
K28405643			support.f5.com/csp/article/K28405643

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