PT-2020-31: Denial of service in F5 Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM)

Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM)

Severity:

Severity level: High
Impact: Denial of service in F5 Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM)
Access Vector: Remote

CVSS v3.0
Base Score: 9,4
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVE-2020-27716

Vulnerability description:

Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) stops responding and restarts while a BIG-IP APM virtual server processes traffic of unknown character.

Advisory status:

30.04.2020 - Vendor notification date
17.12.2020 - Security advisory publication date (<https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K51574311&gt;)

Credits:

The vulnerability was discovered by Nikita Abramov, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company)