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F5 Networks: K40452417 (CVE-2019-6682): BIG-IP ASM memory exhaustion vulnerability CVE-2019-6682

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F5 Networks: K40452417 (CVE-2019-6682): BIG-IP ASM memory exhaustion vulnerability CVE-2019-6682

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/20/2019
Created
12/24/2019
Added
12/21/2019
Modified
03/03/2020

Description

On versions 15.0.0-15.0.1.1, 14.0.0-14.1.2.2, 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, 12.1.0-12.1.5, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1, the BIG-IP ASM system may consume excessive resources when processing certain types of HTTP responses from the origin web server. This vulnerability is only known to affect resource-constrained systems in which the security policy is configured with response-side features, such as Data Guard or response-side learning.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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