CVE-2021-23051 and CVE-2020-5862: F5 On BIG-IP vulnerability
This F5 advisory covers CVE-2021-23051 and CVE-2020-5862. Related products: BIG-IP. Its rating, versions and guidance apply to the bulletin as a whole, not to each of its 2 CVEs.
Key facts
- Bulletin rating
- High, CVSS 7.5
- Versions named
- 15.1.0.4
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
- Record changed
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Description
On BIG-IP versions 15.1.0.4 through 15.1.3, when the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)/Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) driver is used with BIG-IP on Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems, undisclosed requests can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to terminate. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-5862.
Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
Text from the source record.
- 15.1.0.4
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End-of-life dates for F5 BIG-IP
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