What is CVE-2020-5936?

CVE-2020-5936 is a high-severity vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Local Traffic Manager, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-10-29.

How severe is CVE-2020-5936?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in F5 Big-Ip Local Traffic Manager

CVE-2020-5936

On BIG-IP LTM 15.1.0-15.1.0.5, 14.1.0-14.1.2.7, 13.1.0-13.1.3.4, and 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) process may consume excessive resources when processing SSL traffic and client authentication are enabled on the client SSL profile.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.011 (62.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

F5 Big-ip_local_traffic_manager
N/a Big-ip Ltm — versions 15.1.0-15.1.0.5, 14.1.0-14.1.2.7, 13.1.0-13.1.3.4, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

f5sirt@f5.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5936?: CVE-2020-5936 is a high-severity vulnerability in F5 Big-Ip Local Traffic Manager, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-10-29.
How severe is CVE-2020-5936?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.