F5 BIG-IP up to 11.6.4/12.1.4.1/13.1.1.4/14.0.0.4/14.1.0.5 Appliance Mode privilege escalation

A vulnerability has been found in F5 BIG-IP up to 11.6.4/12.1.4.1/13.1.1.4/14.0.0.4/14.1.0.5 (Firewall Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Appliance Mode. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 07/03/2019. The advisory is shared at support.f5.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-6633 since 01/22/2019. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/04/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries 137319, 137318, 137316 and 137315 are pretty similar.

Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• F5

Name

• BIG-IP

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5

VulDB Base Score: ≈5.5
VulDB Temp Score: ≈5.5
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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Remediation: 🔍Recommended: no mitigation known

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01/22/2019 CVE assigned
07/03/2019 +162 days Advisory disclosed
07/04/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
07/04/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: f5.com

Advisory: support.f5.com

CVE: CVE-2019-6633 (🔒)
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Created: 07/04/2019 11:32 AM
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