PT-2018-17015 · F5 · F5 Big-Ip

Published 2018-06-01 · Updated 2018-08-01 · CVE-2018-5521

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions F5 BIG-IP versions 11.2.1 F5 BIG-IP versions 11.5.1 through 11.5.5 F5 BIG-IP versions 11.6.1 through 11.6.3.1 F5 BIG-IP versions 12.1.0 through 12.1.3.1

Description The issue allows carefully crafted URLs to reflect arbitrary content into GeoIP lookup responses, potentially exposing clients to cross-site scripting (XSS).

Recommendations For F5 BIG-IP version 11.2.1, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. For F5 BIG-IP versions 11.5.1 through 11.5.5, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. For F5 BIG-IP versions 11.6.1 through 11.6.3.1, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. For F5 BIG-IP versions 12.1.0 through 12.1.3.1, update to a version that is not affected by this issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-5521

Affected Products

F5 Big-Ip

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5521 · Security Note
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K23124150 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5521 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041021 · Note