CVE-2020-5944

K57274211: BIG-IQ system interface vulnerability CVE-2020-5944

Original Publication Date: Nov 03, 2020

Security Advisory Description

Accessing the DoS Summary events and DNS Overview pages in the BIG-IQ system interface returns an error message due to disabled Grafana reverse proxy in web service configuration.(CVE-2020-5944)

Impact

The BIG-IQ Monitoring events and dashboards for DoS Summary events and DNS Overview pages in the BIG-IQ system interface are inaccessible.

Security Advisory Status

F5 Product Development has assigned ID 745423 (BIG-IP) to this vulnerability.

To determine if your product and version have been evaluated for this vulnerability, refer to the Applies to (see versions) box. To determine if your release is known to be vulnerable, the components or features that are affected by the vulnerability, and for information about releases, point releases, or hotfixes that address the vulnerability, refer to F5’s security advisory below. For more information about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding security advisory versioning.

Affected and fixed versions: F5 maintains the authoritative version matrix for this advisory, and it changes over time. For the current list of affected and fixed versions, see F5’s security advisory K57274211.

Security Advisory Recommended Actions

If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Fixes introduced in column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are currently running, or does not list a non-vulnerable version, then no upgrade candidate currently exists.

Mitigation

Due to a critical BIG-IQ vulnerability documented in K37130415: BIG-IQ Grafana vulnerability CVE-2020-5868. BIG-IQ Grafana vulnerability CVE-2020-5868, the Grafana feature is disabled by default in BIG-IQ 7.1.0 and later. If you are using the affected BIG-IQ Monitoring pages, contact F5 Support