Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-6638 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in F5 products

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
f5
CWE-835
nessus

Summary

On BIG-IP 14.1.0-14.1.0.5 and 14.0.0-14.0.0.4, Malformed http requests made to an undisclosed iControl REST endpoint can lead to infinite loop of the restjavad process.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
F5
186

Nessus

NASL familyF5 Networks Local Security Checks
NASL idF5_BIGIP_SOL67825238.NASL
descriptionMalformed http requests made to an undisclosed iControl REST endpoint can lead to infinite loop of the restjavad process. (CVE-2019-6638) Impact All authenticated users, regardless of role, canexploit this vulnerability, which can result in a denial-of-service (DoS) for all iControl REST operations. This impacts control plane iControl REST functionality and some portions of the Configuration utility. Data plane traffic is not impacted by this issue.
last seen2020-03-17
modified2019-07-02
plugin id126406
published2019-07-02
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/126406
titleF5 Networks BIG-IP : iControl REST vulnerability (K67825238)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from F5 Networks BIG-IP Solution K67825238.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) F5 Networks.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(126406);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/09");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-6638");

  script_name(english:"F5 Networks BIG-IP : iControl REST vulnerability (K67825238)");
  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:
"Malformed http requests made to an undisclosed iControl REST endpoint
can lead to infinite loop of the restjavad process. (CVE-2019-6638)

Impact

All authenticated users, regardless of role, canexploit this
vulnerability, which can result in a denial-of-service (DoS) for all
iControl REST operations. This impacts control plane iControl REST
functionality and some portions of the Configuration utility. Data
plane traffic is not impacted by this issue."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K67825238"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade to one of the non-vulnerable versions listed in the F5
Solution K67825238."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/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:L/PR:L/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:"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_global_traffic_manager");
  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:/a:f5:big-ip_webaccelerator");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/h:f5:big-ip");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/07/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/07/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/07/02");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 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 = "K67825238";
vmatrix = make_array();

# AFM
vmatrix["AFM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["AFM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["AFM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");

# AM
vmatrix["AM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["AM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["AM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");

# APM
vmatrix["APM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["APM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["APM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");

# ASM
vmatrix["ASM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["ASM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["ASM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");

# AVR
vmatrix["AVR"] = make_array();
vmatrix["AVR"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["AVR"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");

# GTM
vmatrix["GTM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["GTM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["GTM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");

# LC
vmatrix["LC"] = make_array();
vmatrix["LC"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["LC"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");

# LTM
vmatrix["LTM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["LTM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["LTM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");

# PEM
vmatrix["PEM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["PEM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["PEM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");

# WAM
vmatrix["WAM"] = make_array();
vmatrix["WAM"]["affected"  ] = make_list("14.1.0","14.0.0");
vmatrix["WAM"]["unaffected"] = make_list("15.0.0","14.1.0.6","14.0.0.5");


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");
}