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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2018.2215
K58935003: F5 Container Connector vulnerability CVE-2018-5543
31 July 2018
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: F5 BIG-IP products
Publisher: F5 Networks
Operating System: Network Appliance
Impact/Access: Access Privileged Data -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2018-5543
Original Bulletin:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K58935003
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K58935003: F5 Container Connector vulnerability CVE-2018-5543
Security Advisory
Original Publication Date: Jul 31, 2018
Applies to (see versions):
o Product: BIG-IQ, BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- 6.0.0, 5.4.0, 5.3.0, 5.2.0, 5.1.0, 5.0.0, 4.6.0
o Product: BIG-IP, BIG-IP AAM, BIG-IP AFM, BIG-IP Analytics, BIG-IP APM,
BIG-IP ASM, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP Edge Gateway, BIG-IP FPS, BIG-IP GTM, BIG-IP
Link Controller, BIG-IP LTM, BIG-IP PEM, BIG-IP WebAccelerator
- 13.1.0, 13.0.1, 13.0.0, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 12.1.0, 11.6.3, 11.6.2,
11.6.1, 11.5.7, 11.5.6, 11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1, 11.2.1
o Product: Enterprise Manager
- 3.1.1
o Product: F5 iWorkflow
- 2.3.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0
o Product: ARX, ARX
- 6.4.0, 6.3.0, 6.2.0
o Product: F5 Container Connector
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o Product: Traffix SDC
- 5.1.0, 4.4.0
o Product: BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration
- 1.0.0
Security Advisory Description
The F5 BIG-IP Controller for Kubernetes (k8s-bigip-crtl) passes BIG-IP username
and password as command line parameters, which may lead to disclosure of the
credentials used by the container. (CVE-2018-5543)
Impact
F5 BIG-IP Controller for Kubernetes
This vulnerability exposes BIG-IP username and passwords to non-privileged user
logged on to the Kubernetes worker node where the container is running.
BIG-IP / BIG-IQ / F5 iWorkflow / Enterprise Manager / ARX / Traffix SDC
There is no impact; these F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.
Security Advisory Status
F5 Product Development has assigned VEL-1484 (F5 Container Connector) 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 or hotfixes that
address the vulnerability, refer to the following table. For more information
about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding Security
Advisory versioning.
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
| | |Versions known to be| | |CVSSv3|Vulnerable |
|Product |Branch |vulnerable |Fixes introduced in |Severity |score^|component or |
| | | | | |1 |feature |
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
|F5 Container | | | | | |BIG-IP |
|Connector (F5 | |k8s-bigip-ctlr:1.0.0| | | |Administrative|
|BIG-IP |k8s-bigip-ctlr:1.x|- |k8s-bigip-ctlr:1.6.0|Medium |6.5 |username and |
|Controller for | |k8s-bigip-ctlr:1.5.0| | | |password |
|Kubernetes) | | | | | | |
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
| | | | | | | |
|BIG-IP (LTM, |13.x |None |Not applicable | | | |
|AAM, AFM, | | | | | | |
|Analytics, APM,+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | | |
|ASM, DNS, Edge | | | |Not | | |
|Gateway, FPS, |12.x |None |Not applicable |vulnerable|None |None |
|GTM, Link | | | | | | |
|Controller, +------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | | |
|PEM, | | | | | | |
|WebAccelerator)|11.x |None |Not applicable | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
|ARX |6.x |None |Not applicable |Not |None |None |
| | | | |vulnerable| | |
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
|Enterprise |3.x |None |Not applicable |Not |None |None |
|Manager | | | |vulnerable| | |
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
| |6.x |None |Not applicable | | | |
|BIG-IQ +------------------+--------------------+--------------------+Not | | |
|Centralized |5.x |None |Not applicable |vulnerable|None |None |
|Management +------------------+--------------------+--------------------+ | | |
| |4.x |None |Not applicable | | | |
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
|BIG-IQ Cloud | | | |Not | | |
|and |1.x |None |Not applicable |vulnerable|None |None |
|Orchestration | | | | | | |
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
|F5 iWorkflow |2.x |None |Not applicable |Not |None |None |
| | | | |vulnerable| | |
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
| |5.x |None |Not applicable |Not | | |
|Traffix SDC +------------------+--------------------+--------------------+vulnerable|None |None |
| |4.x |None |Not applicable | | | |
+---------------+------------------+--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+--------------+
^1 The CVSSv3 score link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is
possible that the document may be removed without our knowledge.
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
None
Supplemental Information
o K51812227: Understanding Security Advisory versioning
o K41942608: Overview of Security Advisory articles
o K4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy
o K4918: Overview of the F5 critical issue hotfix policy
o K167: Downloading software and firmware from F5
o K9970: Subscribing to email notifications regarding F5 products
o K9957: Creating a custom RSS feed to view new and updated documents
o K86859508: Software lifecycle policy for F5 Container Connector
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