CVE-2021-22997 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function in F5 Big-iq Centralized Management

CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical FunctionCWE-287 — Improper Authentication4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 44.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
F5 Big-iq Centralized Management
Timeline
PublishedMar 31
Latest updateMay 24

Description

On all 7.x and 6.x versions (fixed in 8.0.0), BIG-IQ HA ElasticSearch service does not implement any form of authentication for the clustering transport services, and all data used by ElasticSearch for transport is unencrypted. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Software Development (EoSD) are not evaluated.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5f5/big-iq_centralized_managementAll 7.x and 6.x versions

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-v9r8-fpcm-rhvm: On all 7↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2021-22997: On all 7↗2021-03-31
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
F5
CVE-2021-22997: On all 7↗2021-03-31
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CVE-2021-22997 — F5 vulnerability | cvebase