CVE-2019-6657 — On BIG-IP 13

On BIG-IP 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, 12.1.0-12.1.5, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1, a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in an undisclosed page of the BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI), also known as the BIG-IP Configuration utility.

01What is this vulnerability?

On BIG-IP 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, 12.1.0-12.1.5, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1, a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in an undisclosed page of the BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI), also known as the BIG-IP Configuration utility.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
F5	BIG	IP (LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, FPS, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, WebAccelerator) — 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, 12.1.0-12.1.5, 11.5.2-11.6.5.1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-11-01T14:53:06.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T20:31:02.507Z

09References

• support.f5.com — https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22441651