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F5 Networks: CVE-2018-5521: K23124150: GeoIP vulnerability CVE-2018-5521

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F5 Networks: CVE-2018-5521: K23124150: GeoIP vulnerability CVE-2018-5521

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/30/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/31/2018
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

On F5 BIG-IP 12.1.0-12.1.3.1, 11.6.1-11.6.3.1, 11.5.1-11.5.5, or 11.2.1, carefully crafted URLs can be used to reflect arbitrary content into GeoIP lookup responses, potentially exposing clients to XSS.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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