Bug ID 945189: HTTPS monitor fails due to missing ECDHE-RSA-AES256-CBC-SHA

Last Modified: Mar 15, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2, 17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2

Opened: Sep 15, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

After upgrade, the 'DEFAULT' cipher in the server SSL profile attached to the HTTPS monitor does not include the ECDHE-RSA-AES256-CBC-SHA cipher suite in the Client Hello.

Impact

1. Upgrade breaks the SSL pool monitoring. 2. It is also possible that the pools monitoring succeeds but with unexpected ciphers from the 'DEFAULT' list which may cause increased resource usage or unexpectedly weaker encryption. Note: The ciphers negotiated between the HTTPS backend being monitored and the server SSL profile will still belong to the 'DEFAULT' list.

Conditions

After upgrade, HTTPS monitor cipherlist is read from server SSL profile ciphers and set to DEFAULT after upgrade.

Workaround

BIG-IP provides ways to customize the cipher string used by the server SSL profile. Via the configuration utility: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-15-0-0/big-ip-ltm-configuring-custom-cipher-string-for-ssl-negotiation/configuring-a-custom-cipher-string-for-ssl-negotiation.html Via tmsh commands: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K65292843

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips