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CVE-2017-6145

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-613

Description

iControl REST in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.0.0 through 12.1.2 and 13.0.0 includes a service to convert authorization BIGIPAuthCookie cookies to X-F5-Auth-Token tokens. This service does not properly re-validate cookies when making that conversion, allowing once-valid but now expired cookies to be converted to valid tokens.

Affected products

• F5 BIG-IP APM: 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0
• BIG-IP: 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0
• F5 Big-Ip Analytics: 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0
• F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (AAM): 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0
• BIG-IP ASM: 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0
• F5 BIG-IP DNS: 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0
• F5 Big-Ip Link Controller: 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0
• F5 BIG-IP (LTM): 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0
• F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (PEM): 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0
• F5 Big-Ip Websafe: 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 13.0.0

References

• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22317030
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22317030

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