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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2019.1250
BIG-IP Secure Vault vulnerability CVE-2019-6609
11 April 2019
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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-2019-6609
Original Bulletin:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K18535734
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K18535734:BIG-IP Secure Vault vulnerability CVE-2019-6609
Security Advisory
Original Publication Date: 11 Apr, 2019
Security Advisory Description
This vulnerability impacts only the iSeries platforms. On these platforms, the
secureKeyCapable attribute is not set, which causes the Secure Vault feature to
not use F5 hardware support to store the unit key. Instead, the unit key is
stored in plaintext on disk, as is the case for Z100 systems. Additionally,
this issue causes the unit key to be stored in UCS files taken on these
platforms. (CVE-2019-6609)
Impact
BIG-IP
The unit key on a BIG-IP iSeries platform is stored in plaintext. As a result,
the confidentiality of the unit key and master key on the BIG-IP iSeries
platform may be compromised. All other BIG-IP platforms are not affected by
this vulnerability.
Enterprise Manager, BIG-IQ Centralized Management, F5 iWorkflow, Traffix SDC
There is no impact; these F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.
Security Advisory Status
F5 Product Development has assigned ID 737910 (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 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 |Fixes | |CVSSv3|Vulnerable|
|Product |Branch|known to |introduced|Severity |score^|component |
| | |be |in | |1 |or feature|
| | |vulnerable| | | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |14.x |14.0.0 - |14.1.0.2 | | | |
| | |14.1.0.1 | | | | |
|BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, +------+----------+----------+ | | |
|AFM, Analytics, |13.x |13.0.0 - |13.1.1.4 | | |Secure |
|APM, ASM, DNS, Edge| |13.1.1.3 | | | |Vault on |
|Gateway, FPS, GTM, +------+----------+----------+Medium |5.1 |BIG-IP |
|Link Controller, |12.x |12.1.1 HF2|12.1.4.1 | | |iSeries |
|PEM, | |- 12.1.4 | | | |platforms |
|WebAccelerator) +------+----------+----------+ | | |
| |11.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
|Enterprise Manager |3.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
| | | |applicable|vulnerable| | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |6.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | | |
|BIG-IQ Centralized |5.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
|Management | | |applicable|vulnerable| | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | | |
| |4.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
|F5 iWorkflow |2.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
| | | |applicable|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 K9502: BIG-IP hotfix and point release matrix
o K13123: Managing BIG-IP product hotfixes (11.x - 13.x)
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 K73034260: Overview of the BIG-IP system Secure Vault feature
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