Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-6147 - Unspecified vulnerability in F5 products

047910
CVSS 5.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
high complexity
f5
nessus

Summary

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.1.2-HF1 and 13.0.0, an undisclosed type of responses may cause TMM to restart, causing an interruption of service when "SSL Forward Proxy" setting is enabled in both the Client and Server SSL profiles assigned to a BIG-IP Virtual Server.

Nessus

NASL familyF5 Networks Local Security Checks
NASL idF5_BIGIP_SOL43945001.NASL
descriptionAn undisclosed type of responses may cause TMM to restart, causing an interruption of service when
last seen2020-03-17
modified2017-09-18
plugin id103262
published2017-09-18
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103262
titleF5 Networks BIG-IP : F5 TMM vulnerability (K43945001)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from F5 Networks BIG-IP Solution K43945001.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) F5 Networks.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(103262);
  script_version("3.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/09");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-6147");

  script_name(english:"F5 Networks BIG-IP : F5 TMM vulnerability (K43945001)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the BIG-IP version.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"An undisclosed type of responses may cause TMM to restart, causing an
interruption of service when 'SSL Forward Proxy' setting is enabled in
both the Client and Server SSL profiles assigned to a BIG-IP Virtual
Server. (CVE-2017-6147)

Impact

If the SSL Forward Proxy option is enabled on both the Client and
Server SSL profile assigned to a BIG-IP virtual server, an attacker
may be able to cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to
restart, resulting in traffic disruption."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K43945001"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade to one of the non-vulnerable versions listed in the F5
Solution K43945001."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_access_policy_manager");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_application_acceleration_manager");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_application_visibility_and_reporting");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_link_controller");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/h:f5:big-ip");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/09/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/09/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/09/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"F5 Networks Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("f5_bigip_detect.nbin");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/BIG-IP/hotfix", "Host/BIG-IP/modules", "Host/BIG-IP/version");

  exit(0);
}


include("f5_func.inc");

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
version = get_kb_item("Host/BIG-IP/version");
if ( ! version ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "F5 Networks BIG-IP");
if ( isnull(get_kb_item("Host/BIG-IP/hotfix")) ) audit(AUDIT_KB_MISSING, "Host/BIG-IP/hotfix");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/BIG-IP/modules") ) audit(AUDIT_KB_MISSING, "Host/BIG-IP/modules");

sol = "K43945001";
vmatrix = make_array();

# AFM
vmatrix["AFM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["AFM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("13.0.0","12.1.0-12.1.2");
vmatrix["AFM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("13.1.0","13.0.1","12.1.3","12.0.0","11.4.0-11.6.1");

# AM
vmatrix["AM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["AM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("13.0.0","12.1.0-12.1.2");
vmatrix["AM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("13.1.0","13.0.1","12.1.3","12.0.0","11.4.0-11.6.1");

# APM
vmatrix["APM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["APM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("13.0.0","12.1.0-12.1.2");
vmatrix["APM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("13.1.0","13.0.1","12.1.3","12.0.0","11.4.0-11.6.1","11.2.1");

# ASM
vmatrix["ASM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["ASM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("13.0.0","12.1.0-12.1.2");
vmatrix["ASM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("13.1.0","13.0.1","12.1.3","12.0.0","11.4.0-11.6.1","11.2.1");

# AVR
vmatrix["AVR"] = make_array();
vmatrix["AVR"]["affected"  ] = make_list("13.0.0","12.1.0-12.1.2");
vmatrix["AVR"]["unaffected"] = make_list("13.1.0","13.0.1","12.1.3","12.0.0","11.4.0-11.6.1","11.2.1");

# LC
vmatrix["LC"] = make_array();
vmatrix["LC"]["affected"  ] = make_list("13.0.0","12.1.0-12.1.2");
vmatrix["LC"]["unaffected"] = make_list("13.1.0","13.0.1","12.1.3","12.0.0","11.4.0-11.6.1","11.2.1");

# LTM
vmatrix["LTM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["LTM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("13.0.0","12.1.0-12.1.2");
vmatrix["LTM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("13.1.0","13.0.1","12.1.3","12.0.0","11.4.0-11.6.1","11.2.1");

# PEM
vmatrix["PEM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["PEM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("13.0.0","12.1.0-12.1.2");
vmatrix["PEM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("13.1.0","13.0.1","12.1.3","12.0.0","11.4.0-11.6.1");


if (bigip_is_affected(vmatrix:vmatrix, sol:sol))
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:bigip_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = bigip_get_tested_modules();
  audit_extra = "For BIG-IP module(s) " + tested + ",";
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_INST_VER_NOT_VULN, audit_extra, version);
  else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running any of the affected modules");
}