cve-2020-5946
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-05 19:26
Modified
2024-08-04 08:47
Severity ?
Summary
In BIG-IP Advanced WAF and FPS versions 16.0.0-16.0.0.1, 15.1.0-15.1.0.5, and 14.1.0-14.1.2.7, under some circumstances, certain format client-side alerts sent to the BIG-IP virtual server configured with DataSafe may cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to restart, resulting in a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
References
f5sirt@f5.comhttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K53821711Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K53821711Vendor Advisory
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