Bug ID 523763: Changes to base SSL profiles can invalidate child profiles

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
9.4.5, 9.4.6, 9.4.7, 9.4.8, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 11.0.0, 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, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.6.1 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, 11.6.2 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, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 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, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.1.0

Opened: May 16, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K17513

Symptoms

If a change is made in an SSL profile, for example changing the options field to 'No TLSv1.2', a child SSL profile might become invalid silently if its cipher contains only GCM ciphers.

Impact

When a parent profile is changed, its children profiles might silently become invalid. A UCS created from this configuration cannot be loaded successfully.

Conditions

The issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met. 1. Configuration changes (at cipher or options) are made in the parent SSL profile. 2. A child SSL profile has ciphers or options marked as user-specified (that is, values not inherited from parent). 3. The child SSL profile has only GCM ciphers configured in the cipher field, or has 'No TLSv1.2' in the options.

Workaround

Do not change base SSL profiles.

Fix Information

Now, child SSL profiles are also validated when a configuration change is made to the parent SSL profile, which prevents a silently occurring invalid configuration.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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