CVE-2016-6249

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

F5 BIG-IP 12.0.0 and 11.5.0 - 11.6.1 REST requests which timeout during user account authentication may log sensitive attributes such as passwords in plaintext to /var/log/restjavad.0.log. It may allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.

Affected products

F5 BIG-IP APM: 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+2)
BIG-IP: 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+2)
F5 Big-Ip Analytics: 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+2)
F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (AAM): 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+2)
BIG-IP ASM: 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+2)
F5 BIG-IP DNS: 12.0.0
F5 Big-Ip Global Traffic Manager: 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+1)
F5 Big-Ip Link Controller: 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+2)
F5 BIG-IP (LTM): 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+2)
F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (PEM): 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+2)
F5 Big-Ip Websafe: 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.6.0 (+2)

References

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