CVE-2017-6162

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CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium

EPSS

2%p75

Published

Oct 27, 2017 (Oct 27, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, Websafe software version 12.0.0 to 12.1.2, 11.6.0 to 11.6.1, 11.4.0 to 11.5.4, 11.2.1, in some cases TMM may crash when processing TCP traffic. This vulnerability affects TMM via a virtual server configured with TCP profile. Traffic processing is disrupted while Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) restarts. If the affected BIG-IP system is configured to be part of a device group, it will trigger a failover to the peer device.

Vendors: f5
Products: big-ip local traffic manager, big-ip application acceleration manager, big-ip advanced firewall manager, big-ip access policy manager, big-ip application security manager, big-ip link controller, big-ip policy enforcement manager, big-ip websafe
Weakness: CWE-119
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.7%)

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