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CVE-2016-6249

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CVE-2016-6249

Published: Feb 20, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

F5 BIG-IP 12.0.0 and 11.5.0 - 11.6.1 REST requests which timeout during user account authentication may log sensitive attributes such as passwords in plaintext to /var/log/restjavad.0.log. It may allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.

VendorProductVersions

F5 Networks

F5 BIG-IP, REST Framework Logging

affected
BIG-IP 12.0.0, BIG-IP 11.5.0 - 11.6.1

References

1037873
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK

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