Bug ID 749109: CSRF situation on BIGIP-ASM GUI

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1

Fixed In:
15.0.0, 14.1.0.2, 14.0.0.5, 13.1.1.5

Opened: Nov 07, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

CSRF situation on the BIG-IP ASM GUI that might potentially lead to resource exhaustion on the device for the moment it is being run.

Impact

Once multiple requests are sent to the target GUI, it is possible to see httpd process spiking even in core 0 (VMWare).

Conditions

The following URL accepts a wildcard in the parameter id, making it a heavy URL: https://BIG-IP/dms/policy/pl_negsig.php?id=*

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

If the query string parameter has a string value the query is not executed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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