Bug ID 1112349: FIPS Card Cannot Initialize

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2

Fixed In:
17.1.0, 16.1.4, 15.1.9

Opened: Jun 06, 2022

Severity: 1-Blocking

Symptoms

Initializing the FIPS card for the first time which contains the FIPS firmware CNN35XX-NFBE-FW-1.1-02 may cause the below error and will not be able to initialize the card: Enter new Security Officer password (min. 0, max. 0 characters): ERROR: Too long input (max.: 0 characters) ERROR: Failed to read password ERROR: INITIALIZATION FAILED!

Impact

FIPS card cannot be used for the FIPS key traffic and will not be able to re-initialize.

Conditions

First time initialization of new device with "tmsh run util fips-util -f init" command which contains the FIPS firmware CNN35XX-NFBE-FW-1.1-02

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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