CVE-2017-6157 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting multiple F5 BIG-IP products, including LTM, APM, and ASM, across several versions (12.0.0-12.1.1, 11.6.0-11.6.1, 11.5.0-11.5.4). It arises when virtual servers are configured with HTTP Explicit Proxy and/or SOCKS profiles. This unauthenticated, remote attack allows for configuration modification, sensitive file extraction, and potential remote command execution on the BIG-IP system. Despite its high CVSS score of 8.1, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with high attack complexity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 11.5.0, <= 11.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager:11.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager:11.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager:12.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager:12.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.