cve-2023-23552
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-01 17:56
Modified
2025-03-25 19:23
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
On versions 17.0.x before 17.0.0.2, 16.1.x before 16.1.3.3, 15.1.0 before 15.1.8, 14.1.x before 14.1.5.3, and all versions of 13.1.x, when a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or BIG-IP ASM security policy is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause an increase in memory resource utilization. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
References
f5sirt@f5.comhttps://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K17542533Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K17542533Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
F5 BIG-IP Version: 17.0.0   ≤
Version: 16.1.0   ≤
Version: 15.1.0   ≤
Version: 14.1.0   ≤
Version: 13.1.0   ≤
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