Bug ID 825805: NTLM Auth may fail due to incorrect handling of EPM response

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM, Install/Upgrade(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2

Fixed In:
15.1.0, 15.0.1.3, 14.1.2.3

Opened: Sep 13, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

NTLM passthrough authentication may stop working after upgrade.

Impact

APM end users cannot login.

Conditions

-- NTLM authentication configured. -- Upgraded to a BIG-IP software version that contains the implementation for the Microsoft Internet Explorer feature, 'Enhanced protected mode' (EPM). -- There are more than two protocol sequence towers included in the EPM response.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

The system can now parse EPM response as expected.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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