Bug ID 1473913: Proxy Connections drop due to wrong counting

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP ASM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 15.1.10.6, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 16.1.5.2, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2, 17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.5.0

Opened: Jan 04, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Proxy Connections are dropped. The reset cause in a package capture indicates "F5RST: Not connected"

Impact

Random connections are dropped

Conditions

Can happen during a DOS attack with standard mitigation mode enabled.

Workaround

Use conservative mitigation mode.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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