Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
11.6.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4
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.