Bug ID 660239: When accessing the dashboard, invalid HTTP headers may be present

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
10.2.3, 10.2.4, 11.1.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2

Fixed In:
14.0.0, 13.1.0.3, 13.0.1, 12.1.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.5.7

Opened: Apr 24, 2017

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

When accessing parts of the BIG-IP dashboard via the GUI, there might be invalid HTTP headers in the responses.

Impact

The invalid HTTP headers might cause issues with the dashboard if there are intervening proxies between the browser and the BIG-IP. You may see such errors in the http error logs Feb 20 08:47:58 myBIG-IP err httpd[13777]: [error] [client 10.20.30.40] Response header name '<PostData><![CDATA[table=log%5Fstat]]></PostData>Cache-Control' contains invalid characters, aborting request, referer: https://mybigip.com/tmui/dashboard/MonitorDashboardModule.swf

Conditions

Access the dashboard via Statistics :: Dashboard.

Workaround

There is no workaround at this time.

Fix Information

Eliminated invalid header data.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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