Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10
Opened: Nov 11, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
When creating a monitor whose description contains escape characters, they get double-escaped. Example: root@(v11-5-01)(cfg-sync Disconnected)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# create ltm monitor http http_foobar description \@\#\$\@\#\$\@\#\$\@\#\$\@\#\$ root@(v11-5-01)(cfg-sync Disconnected)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# list ltm monitor http http_foobar ltm monitor http http_foobar { defaults-from http description "@\\#\\$@\\#\\$@\\#\\$@\\#\\$@\\#\\$"
Description contains extra backslashes.
Creating monitors with escape characters in the description
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