CVE-2017-6162

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, Websafe software version 12.0.0 to 12.1.2, 11.6.0 to 11.6.1, 11.4.0 to 11.5.4, 11.2.1, in some cases TMM may crash when processing TCP traffic. This vulnerability affects TMM via a virtual server configured with TCP profile. Traffic processing is disrupted while Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) restarts. If the affected BIG-IP system is configured to be part of a device group, it will trigger a failover to the peer device.

Affected products

F5 BIG-IP APM: from 11.5.0 through 11.5.4; 11.2.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 12.0.0, 12.1.0, 12.1.1
BIG-IP: from 11.5.0 through 11.5.4; 11.2.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 12.0.0, 12.1.0, 12.1.1
F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (AAM): from 11.5.0 through 11.5.4; 11.2.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 12.0.0, 12.1.0, 12.1.1
BIG-IP ASM: from 11.5.0 through 11.5.4; 11.2.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 12.0.0, 12.1.0, 12.1.1
F5 Big-Ip Link Controller: from 11.5.0 through 11.5.4; 11.2.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 12.0.0, 12.1.0, 12.1.1
F5 BIG-IP (LTM): from 11.5.0 through 11.5.4; 11.2.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 12.0.0, 12.1.0, 12.1.1
F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (PEM): from 11.5.0 through 11.5.4; 11.2.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 12.0.0, 12.1.0, 12.1.1
F5 Big-Ip Websafe: 1.0.0

References

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