K12685114 : BIG-IP REST vulnerability CVE-2016-6249

Security Advisory 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. (CVE-2016-6249)

Impact

An authenticated user may be able to gain access to privileged information by way of the Advanced Shell (bash) orqkview data.