K8406 : The BIG-IP ASM web management interface cross-site scripting vulnerability CVE-2008-0539

Security Advisory Description

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F5 products and versions that have been evaluated for this Security Advisory

The F5 BIG-IP ASM web management interface contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Security Report function. The vulnerability is within the BIG-IP ASM portion of the Configuration utility and can be accessed successfully only if the browser user is authenticated and the BIG-IP ASM module is active.

Information about this advisory is available at the following location:

<http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-0539&gt;

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F5 Product Development tracked this issue as CR93049 and it was fixed in BIG-IP ASM 9.4.5. For information about upgrading, refer to the BIG-IP ASM release notes.

Additionally, this issue was fixed in Hotfix-BIG-IP-9.4.4-HF-1 issued for the 9.4 software branch. You may download this hotfix or later versions of the hotfix from the F5 Downloads site.