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CVE-2017-6156

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CVE-2017-6156

Published: Apr 13, 2018

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

When the F5 BIG-IP 12.1.0-12.1.1, 11.6.0-11.6.1, 11.5.1-11.5.5, or 11.2.1 system is configured with a wildcard IPSec tunnel endpoint, it may allow a remote attacker to disrupt or impersonate the tunnels that have completed phase 1 IPSec negotiations. The attacker must possess the necessary credentials to negotiate the phase 1 of the IPSec exchange to exploit this vulnerability; in many environment this limits the attack surface to other endpoints under the same administration.

VendorProductVersions

F5 Networks, Inc.

BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator, WebSafe)

affected
12.1.0-12.1.1
affected
11.6.0-11.6.1
affected
11.5.1-11.5.5
affected
11.2.1

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