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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2020.1011 NGINX Controller vulnerability CVE-2020-5863 20 March 2020 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: NGINX Controller Publisher: F5 Networks Operating System: Network Appliance Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2020-5863 Original Bulletin: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14631834 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- K14631834:NGINX Controller vulnerability CVE-2020-5863 Security Advisory Original Publication Date: 20 Mar, 2020 Security Advisory Description NGINX Controller allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create unprivileged user accounts. The user that is created is only able to upload a new license to the system but cannot view or modify any other components of the system. (CVE-2020-5863) Impact Attackers can exploit this vulnerability and create a denial of service (DoS) scenario on the NGINX Controller. Security Advisory Status F5 Product Development has assigned ID IND-9428 (NGINX Controller) 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 |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |14.x |None |Not | | | | |BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, | | |applicable| | | | |AFM, Analytics, +------+----------+----------+ | | | |APM, ASM, DNS, |13.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | |FPS, GTM, Link | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | |Controller, PEM) +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |12.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |11.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+-----------+ | |7.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | |BIG-IQ Centralized|6.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | |Management | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |5.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+-----------+ |Traffix SDC |5.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | | | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | +------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+-----------+ | |3.x |3.0.0 - |3.2.0 | | | | | | |3.1.0 | | | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | |NGINX | |NGINX Controller |2.x |2.0.0 - |None |High |8.6 |Controller | | | |2.9.0 | | | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |1.x |1.0.1 |None | | | | +------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+-----------+ ^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. 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 To mitigate this vulnerability, you can restrict network access to the NGINX Controller API port (TCP 443) by configuring either the NGINX Controller's host firewall software or an external packet filtering device to allow only trusted networks to access the NGINX Controller API. Note: For more information on other required firewall / IP settings on the NGINX Controller, refer to the Firewall / IP Settings section in Tech Specs for NGINX Controller and Controller Agent. 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