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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2019.4497.2
BIG-IP Edge Client for macOS vulnerability CVE-2019-6668
16 December 2019
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: BIG-IP Edge Client
Publisher: F5 Networks
Operating System: Mac OS
Impact/Access: Increased Privileges -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2019-6668
Original Bulletin:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K49827114
Revision History: December 16 2019: Updated to latest publication
November 28 2019: Initial Release
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K49827114:BIG-IP Edge Client for macOS vulnerability CVE-2019-6668
Security Advisory
Original Publication Date: 27 Nov, 2019
Latest Publication Date: 13 Dec, 2019
Security Advisory Description
The BIG-IP Edge Client for macOS may allow unprivileged users to access files
owned by the root account (CVE-2019-6668).
Impact
The BIG-IP Edge Client may allow an unprivileged user on the affected macOS
device to get ownership of files owned by the root account on the local client
host.
Security Advisory Status
F5 Product Development has assigned ID 759343 (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, point 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| | | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |15.x |15.0.0 - |15.1.0^2 | | | |
| | |15.0.1 |15.0.1.1^2| | | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | | |
| |14.x |14.1.0 |14.1.0.6^2| | | |
| | |14.0.0 |14.0.0.5^2| | | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | |APM Edge |
|BIG-IP APM |13.x |13.0.0 - |13.1.3.2^2|High |7.8 |Client |
| | |13.1.3 | | | |installer |
| +------+----------+----------+ | |on macOS |
| |12.x |12.1.0 - |None | | | |
| | |12.1.5 | | | | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | | |
| |11.x |11.5.1^3 -|11.6.5.1 | | | |
| | |11.6.5 | | | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |14.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
|BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, +------+----------+----------+ | | |
|AFM, Analytics, |13.x |None |Not | | | |
|ASM, DNS, Edge | | |applicable|Not | | |
|Gateway, FPS, GTM, +------+----------+----------+vulnerable|None |None |
|Link Controller, |12.x |None |Not | | | |
|PEM, | | |applicable| | | |
|WebAccelerator) +------+----------+----------+ | | |
| |11.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
|Enterprise Manager |3.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
| | | |applicable|vulnerable| | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |6.x |None |Not | | | |
|BIG-IQ Centralized | | |applicable|Not | | |
|Management +------+----------+----------+vulnerable|None |None |
| |5.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| | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
^1The CVSSv3 score link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is
possible that the document may be removed without our knowledge.
^2In BIG-IP APM 13.1.0 and later, you can update the BIG-IP APM client
components independently from BIG-IP software. For more information, refer to
K52547540: Updating the BIG-IP Edge Client for the BIG-IP APM system.
^3F5 will not be developing a fix for the 11.5.x software branches, and this
table will not be updated with subsequent vulnerable releases in these
branches. For more information, refer to K4602: Overview of the F5 security
vulnerability response policy.
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
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