Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
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, 12.1.0 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
Opened: Jun 17, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
Cookie (BIG-IPAuthCookie) based authentication is no longer supported for iControl REST API to prevent CSRF security vulnerability. But when a logon fails the authentication, there is no basic auth challenge (WWW-Authenticate header) in the response.
Because of the missing Basic Auth challenge, browser/soapUI/Postman tools cannot use cached user credentials.
Issue happens with cookie (BIG-IPAuthCookie) based authentication.
Workaround is to remove the cookie (BIG-IPAuthCookie) from browser session so it does not get included in the sent request.
This release now includes a Basic Auth challenge (WWW-Authenticate header) in 401 F5 Authorization Required responses.