Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP ASM
Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2
Fixed In:
16.1.0, 15.1.0.5, 14.1.2.7
Opened: Apr 28, 2020 Severity: 2-Critical
When a Cloud Auto Scaling deployment is set up using F5's Auto Scale Template, and ASM Live Update is configured with Automatic Download enabled, the configuration may be overwritten during a scale out event when a new host joins the sync cluster. This is caused by a config sync from the new device to the primary device, before the primary has a chance to sync the configuration to the new device, causing the configuration in the primary device to be overwritten.
Configuration of all devices in the Auto Scale group is overwritten.
-- Using F5's Auto Scaling template. -- Auto Scale script is configured with --block-sync (which is the default). -- ASM Live Update is configured with Automatic Download enabled. -- A scale out event occurs.
Disable ASM Live Update Automatic Download. This can be done by disabling the liveupdate.autodownload DB variable using the onboard.js script, and adding '-d liveupdate.autodownload:disable'. For example: /usr/bin/f5-rest-node /config/cloud/aws/node_modules/@f5devcentral/f5-cloud-libs/scripts/onboard.js --log-level silly --signal ONBOARD_DONE -o /var/log/cloud/aws/onboard.log --host localhost --port 8443 -d tm.tcpudptxchecksum:software-only -d liveupdate.autodownload:disable --ping -d tm.tcpudptxchecksum:software-only -d liveupdate.autodownload:disable
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