CVE-2018-5541 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in F5 Big-ip Application Security Manager

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
F5 Big-ip Application Security ManagerF5 Networks INC Big-ip
Timeline
PublishedJul 25
Latest updateMay 14

Description

When F5 BIG-IP ASM 13.0.0-13.1.0.1, 12.1.0-12.1.3.5, 11.6.0-11.6.3.1, or 11.5.1-11.5.6 is processing HTTP requests, an unusually large number of parameters can cause excessive CPU usage in the BIG-IP ASM bd process.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5f5_networks_inc/big-ip4 versions+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-r9ff-j36c-4rfp: When F5 BIG-IP ASM 13↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2018-5541: When F5 BIG-IP ASM 13↗2018-07-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
F5
CVE-2018-5541: When F5 BIG-IP ASM 13↗2018-07-25
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