Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-5508 - Unspecified vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Policy Enforcement Manager
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
On F5 BIG-IP PEM versions 13.0.0, 12.0.0-12.1.3.1, 11.6.0-11.6.2, 11.5.1-11.5.5, or 11.2.1, under certain conditions, TMM may crash when processing compressed data though a Virtual Server with an associated PEM profile using the content insertion option.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
| NASL family | F5 Networks Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | F5_BIGIP_SOL10329515.NASL |
| description | Under certain conditions, TMM may produce a core file and restart when processing compressed data though a virtual server with an associated PEM profile using the content insertion option. (CVE-2018-5508) Impact The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) generates a core file and restarts. If configured as part of a high availability (HA) device group, the BIG-IP system fails over to the peer device. |
| last seen | 2020-03-17 |
| modified | 2018-11-02 |
| plugin id | 118627 |
| 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/118627 |
| title | F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP PEM vulnerability (K10329515) |