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CVE-2016-6249

N/A
Published: February 20, 2017 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:50 AM UTC
12 products affected across 2 vendorsBig IP Access Policy ManagerBig IP Application Security ManagerBig IP Advanced Firewall Manager

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

Description

F5 BIG-IP 12.0.0 and 11.5.0 - 11.6.1 REST requests which timeout during user account authentication may log sensitive attributes such as passwords in plaintext to /var/log/restjavad.0.log. It may allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.

Remediation

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Patch and advisory references

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037873
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12685114

CVSS

2.1LOW[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200

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