CVE-2017-6162 describes a medium-severity vulnerability affecting various F5 BIG-IP products (LTM, AAM, AFM, APM, ASM, etc.) across multiple versions. It allows for a denial-of-service condition where the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) can crash when processing specific TCP traffic through a virtual server configured with a TCP profile. This disruption can lead to a failover in device groups. While the attack complexity is high, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 11.5.0, <= 11.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager:11.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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