NetSight
medium4.7

CVE-2018-5516

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5, 12.1.0-12.1.2, or 11.2.1-11.6.3.1, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.0.0-5.4.0 or 4.6.0, BIG-IQ Cloud and…

Impact

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5, 12.1.0-12.1.2, or 11.2.1-11.6.3.1, Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, BIG-IQ Centralized Management 5.0.0-5.4.0 or 4.6.0, BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0, or F5 iWorkflow 2.0.2-2.3.0, authenticated users granted TMOS Shell (tmsh) access can access objects on the file system which would normally be disallowed by tmsh restrictions. This allows for authenticated, low privileged attackers to exfiltrate objects on the file system which should not be allowed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
F5Big-Ip Local Traffic Manager
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Application Acceleration Manager
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Advanced Firewall Manager
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Analytics
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Access Policy Manager
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Application Security Manager
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Edge Gateway
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Global Traffic Manager
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Link Controller
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Policy Enforcement Manager
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Webaccelerator
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0
F5Big-Ip Websafe
from 11.2.1 through 11.6.3
from 12.1.0 through 12.1.2
from 13.0.0 through 13.1.0

Weakness classification

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