Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
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, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2
Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF5
Opened: Dec 30, 2014 Severity: 3-Major Related Article:
K16972
Processing nested groups might cause an infinite loop.
User cannot pass access policy that contains the affected agent. The apd process must be restarted to re-initialize LDAP agent.
LDAP query is configured to get group membership using 'member' attribute. On the LDAP server, group1 has group2 as a member and group2 has group1 as a membermember (membership loop), then the LDAP Query falls into an infinite loop trying to resolve nested groups.
None.
The LDAP Query resolves group membership including nested groups as expected.