CVE-2019-6670

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-312

Description

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.1.0-14.1.2, 14.0.0-14.0.1, 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, 12.1.0-12.1.5, and 11.5.1-11.6.5, vCMP hypervisors are incorrectly exposing the plaintext unit key for their vCMP guests on the filesystem.

Affected products

F5 BIG-IP APM: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
BIG-IP: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 Big-Ip Analytics: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (AAM): from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
BIG-IP ASM: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 BIG-IP DNS: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 Big-Ip Edge Gateway: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 Big-Ip Fraud Protection Service: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 Big-Ip Global Traffic Manager: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.0.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 Big-Ip Link Controller: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 BIG-IP (LTM): from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (PEM): from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1
F5 Big-Ip Webaccelerator: from 11.5.1 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1; from 14.0.0 through 14.0.1; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.0.1

References

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