PT-2020-18814 · F5 · F5 Big-Ip

Published 2020-08-26 · Updated 2021-07-21 · CVE-2020-5916

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions F5 BIG-IP versions 15.0.0 through 15.0.1.3 F5 BIG-IP versions 15.1.0 through 15.1.0.4

Description The issue allows the Certificate Administrator user role and higher privileged roles to perform arbitrary file reads outside of the web root directory.

Recommendations For F5 BIG-IP versions 15.0.0 through 15.0.1.3, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue. For F5 BIG-IP versions 15.1.0 through 15.1.0.4, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-5916

Affected Products

F5 Big-Ip

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5916 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K29923912 · Vendor Advisory