CVE-2020-5860

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.1.0.2, 14.1.0-14.1.2.3, 13.1.0-13.1.3.2, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1 and BIG-IQ 7.0.0, 6.0.0-6.1.0, and 5.2.0-5.4.0, in a High Availability (HA) network failover in Device Service Cluster (DSC), the failover service does not require a strong form of authentication and HA network failover traffic is not encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Affected products

F5 BIG-IP APM: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
BIG-IP: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
F5 Big-Ip Analytics: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (AAM): from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
BIG-IP ASM: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
F5 BIG-IP DNS: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
F5 Big-Ip Fraud Protection Service: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
F5 Big-Ip Global Traffic Manager: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
F5 Big-Ip Link Controller: from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
F5 BIG-IP (LTM): from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
F5 Networks, Inc. BIG-IP (PEM): from 11.5.2 through 11.6.5; from 12.1.0 through 12.1.5; from 13.1.0 through 13.1.3; from 14.1.0 through 14.1.2; from 15.0.0 through 15.1.0
F5 BIG-IQ: from 5.2.0 through 5.4.0; from 6.0.0 through 6.1.0; 7.0.0

References

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