Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-5504 - Unspecified vulnerability in F5 products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In some circumstances, the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) does not properly handle certain malformed Websockets requests/responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or possible remote code execution on the F5 BIG-IP system running versions 13.0.0 - 13.1.0.3 or 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.1.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
| NASL family | F5 Networks Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | F5_BIGIP_SOL11718033.NASL |
| description | In some circumstances, the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) does not properly handle certain malformed WebSocket requests/responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) or possible remote code execution on the BIG-IP system. (CVE-2018-5504) Impact This vulnerability allowsunauthorized remote code execution and disruption of service through an unspecified crafted WebSocket packet. |
| last seen | 2020-03-17 |
| modified | 2018-11-02 |
| plugin id | 118630 |
| published | 2018-11-02 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118630 |
| title | F5 Networks BIG-IP : TMM WebSocket vulnerability (K11718033) |