5.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
4.8 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
31.8%
X509 certificate verification was not correctly implementedin the early access ‘user id’ feature in the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager, and thus did not properly validate the remote server’s identity on certain versions of BIG-IP. (CVE-2017-6142)
Impact
In affected BIG-IP AFM versions, the system is unable to properly validate the remote server’s identity, which may lead to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. This issue affects the Network Firewall policy enforcement. The issue depends on an experimental configuration that was only deployed with F5 technical assistance as a proof of concept.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from F5 Networks BIG-IP Solution K20682450.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) F5 Networks.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(118639);
script_version("1.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/03");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-6142");
script_name(english:"F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP AFM vulnerability (K20682450)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"X509 certificate verification was not correctly implementedin the
early access 'user id' feature in the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall
Manager, and thus did not properly validate the remote server's
identity on certain versions of BIG-IP. (CVE-2017-6142)
Impact
In affected BIG-IP AFM versions, the system is unable to properly
validate the remote server's identity, which may lead to
man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. This issue affects the Network
Firewall policy enforcement. The issue depends on an experimental
configuration that was only deployed with F5 technical assistance as a
proof of concept.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K20682450");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to one of the non-vulnerable versions listed in the F5 Solution K20682450.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-6142");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/01/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/01/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/11/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/h:f5:big-ip");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"F5 Networks Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("f5_bigip_detect.nbin");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/BIG-IP/hotfix", "Host/BIG-IP/modules", "Host/BIG-IP/version");
exit(0);
}
include('f5_func.inc');
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var version = get_kb_item('Host/BIG-IP/version');
if ( ! version ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'F5 Networks BIG-IP');
if ( isnull(get_kb_item('Host/BIG-IP/hotfix')) ) audit(AUDIT_KB_MISSING, 'Host/BIG-IP/hotfix');
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/BIG-IP/modules') ) audit(AUDIT_KB_MISSING, 'Host/BIG-IP/modules');
var sol = 'K20682450';
var vmatrix = {
'AFM': {
'affected': [
'13.0.0','12.1.0-12.1.2','11.6.1-11.6.2'
],
'unaffected': [
'13.1.0','13.0.0 HF1','12.1.2 HF1','12.1.0-12.1.3','11.6.3'
],
}
};
if (bigip_is_affected(vmatrix:vmatrix, sol:sol))
{
var extra = NULL;
if (report_verbosity > 0) extra = bigip_report_get();
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : extra
);
}
else
{
var tested = bigip_get_tested_modules();
var audit_extra = 'For BIG-IP module(s) ' + tested + ',';
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_INST_VER_NOT_VULN, audit_extra, version);
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'running the affected module AFM');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
f5 | big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager | cpe:/a:f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager | |
f5 | big-ip | cpe:/h:f5:big-ip |
5.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
4.8 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
31.8%