CVE-2012-1493

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-255 Credentials Management

Publication date:

09/07/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

F5 BIG-IP appliances 9.x before 9.4.8-HF5, 10.x before 10.2.4, 11.0.x before 11.0.0-HF2, and 11.1.x before 11.1.0-HF3, and Enterprise Manager before 2.1.0-HF2, 2.2.x before 2.2.0-HF1, and 2.3.x before 2.3.0-HF3, use a single SSH private key across different customers&#39; installations and do not properly restrict access to this key, which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform SSH logins via the PubkeyAuthentication option.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.2.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.2.0:hf4::::::
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:10.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:10.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:10.2.3:hf1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:11.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:11.0.0:hf1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:11.1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:11.1.0:hf2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_global_traffic_manager::::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.2.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.2.0:hf4::::::
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:9.4.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:10.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:10.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:10.2.3:hf1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:11.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:11.0.0:hf1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:11.1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_application_security_manager:11.1.0:hf2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:f5:big-ip_global_traffic_manager::::::::

CVE-2012-1493

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools