CVE-2018-5504

HighCVSS 8.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In some circumstances, the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) does not properly handle certain malformed Websockets requests/responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or possible remote code execution on the F5 BIG-IP system running versions 13.0.0 - 13.1.0.3 or 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.1.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Mar 22, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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