Last Modified: Mar 24, 2023
Affected Product:
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BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
17.0.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.0, 16.0.1.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.3, 15.1.2.1, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.4, 13.1.3.6, 12.1.6, 12.1.5.3
Opened: Apr 09, 2021
Severity: 3-Major
As a result of changes were introduced to increase security around the REST API, REST calls that use HTTP basic authentication may take longer to execute that they did previously.
- Degraded performance of the REST API
- REST API calls - HTTP basic authentication used for the REST calls
Update automation scripting to use token based authentication, which is both faster and more secure than HTTP basic authentication
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