What is CVE-2019-6601?

CVE-2019-6601 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Application Acceleration Manager, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-03-13.

How severe is CVE-2019-6601?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in F5 Big-Ip Application Acceleration Manager

CVE-2019-6601

In BIG-IP 13.0.0, 12.1.0-12.1.3.7, 11.6.1-11.6.3.2, or 11.5.1-11.5.8, the Application Acceleration Manager (AAM) wamd process used in processing of images and PDFs fails to drop group permissions when executing helper scripts.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.003 (24.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

F5 Big-ip_application_acceleration_manager — versions 13.0.0
F5 Networks, Inc. Big-ip (Aam) — versions 13.0.0, 12.1.0-12.1.3.7, 11.6.1-11.6.3.2, 11.5.1-11.5.8

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

f5sirt@f5.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
f5sirt@f5.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-6601?: CVE-2019-6601 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Application Acceleration Manager, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-03-13.
How severe is CVE-2019-6601?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.