Bug ID 471059: Malformed cookies can break persistence

Last Modified: Jul 18, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 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, 11.5.2 hf1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 hf1, 11.5.3 hf2, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 hf1, 11.6.0 hf2, 11.6.0 hf3, 11.6.0 hf4, 11.6.0 hf5, 11.6.0 hf6, 11.6.0 hf7, 11.6.0 hf8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 hf1, 11.6.1 hf2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 hf1, 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:
11.5.4

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