Last Modified: May 29, 2024
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP ASM
Known Affected Versions:
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, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4
Fixed In:
15.1.0, 14.1.4.5, 13.1.5
Opened: May 23, 2019 Severity: 3-Major
When an authentication request with Authorization: Negotiate arrives to ASM. ASM does not count it as a login attempt. As a result brute force protection isn't applied.
Brute force attack checking can be skipped if the backend server authorization type is NTLM but the client sends 'Authorization: Negotiate TlR'.
-- ASM provisioned. -- ASM policy attached to a virtual sever. -- Login URL configured in ASM policy. -- Brute force protection enabled in ASM policy.
Use iRule which changes 'Authorization: Negotiate TlR' to NTLM on the client side (before ASM) and sets is back to the original value on the server side (after ASM)
After the fix ASM treats 'Authorization: Negotiate TlR' as NTLM, while the 'TlR' is a sign of NTLM usage.