High severity7.3NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-6145
CVE-2017-6145
Description
iControl REST in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, and WebSafe 12.0.0 through 12.1.2 and 13.0.0 includes a service to convert authorization BIGIPAuthCookie cookies to X-F5-Auth-Token tokens. This service does not properly re-validate cookies when making that conversion, allowing once-valid but now expired cookies to be converted to valid tokens.
Affected products
1- F5 Networks, Inc./F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Link Controller, PEM, WebSafev5Range: 12.0.0 through 12.1.2
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
1- support.f5.com/csp/article/K22317030nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
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