Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP AFM
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.3, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4, 11.5.4 HF1, 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, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4
Fixed In:
12.1.0, 11.5.4 HF2
Opened: Nov 06, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
When using the 8-entry "rich" DoS whitelist with IPv6 addresses, the HW matches only 32 bits of an incoming IPv6 address against the whitelist entry, meaning that if an incoming IPv6 address matches those 32 bits, the whitelist will result in "match", even if other bits of the IPv6 address do not match. Note that the configuration can select which set of bits (there are 4 choices -- 127:96, 95:64, 63:32, 31:0) to match against, via the db.tunable dos.wlipv6addrsel. Also, note that IPv4 matches are always perfect, and are not affected by this issue.
In some cases, the Whitelist may overmatch, meaning some IPv6 addresses will be considered whitelist matches, when they do not match the whitelist.
Occurs when the 8-entry AFM DoS Whitelist is used to match against IPv6 addresses.
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