Bug ID 471059: Malformed cookies can break persistence

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3

Fixed In:
11.6.0 HF6, 11.5.4, 11.4.1 HF9

Opened: Jul 09, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K22653542

Symptoms

Clients sending a malformed cookie (that is, a space character that precedes the persistence cookie) might prevent the parsing of a valid persistence cookie.

Impact

Persistence is ignored.

Conditions

HTTP request contains malformed cookie value that occurs before the BIG-IP system persistence cookie, For example: Cookie:foo=bar =bar; BIGipServerhttp=60361226.20480.0001

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Cookie values containing space character are parsed properly.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips