Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
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:
12.1.0, 12.0.0, 11.5.4
Opened: Apr 13, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
Non-HTTP traffic can have the server-side send data outside the usual request-response pairing. (Either before a request, or extra data after a response is complete.) If so, HTTP will reject the connection as the server state is now unknown. However, if HTTP is acting as a Transparent proxy, switching to pass-through mode and disabling HTTP may be a better course of action.
Banner protocols, where the a server will respond before seeing any data will not pass through the Transparent HTTP proxy. Non-HTTP protocols that start with a pseudo-HTTP response, followed by extra data will reject the connection when the extra data is seen.
Non-HTTP data sent to the server-side not belonging to a response.
It may be possible to use HTTP::disable to disable the HTTP filter when some signature of the non-HTTP protocol is seen.
The transparent HTTP profile's passthrough-pipeline option now allows unexpected server-side ingress to switch the Transparent HTTP proxy into pass-through mode.