Fixes came earlier than scheduled as vulnerability became known to outsiders
Researchers at Praetorian first discovered the authentication bypass flaw in BIG-IP's configuration utility and published their findings this week of what is the third major RCE bug to impact BIG-IP since 2020.
Weber revealed that F5 originally didn't plan to address the issues after being made aware of them at the start of October, but quickly U-turned after realizing that knowledge of the flaw may exist outside of those involved in the disclosure. "Then last night at 8PM ET, we get an email that they're dropping the advisory and hotfix in 16 hours. We asked why and were told 'we believe this vulnerability is now known outside of F5 and Praetorian thus forcing our hands at an immediate disclosure'."
After deploying a default F5 installation using an AWS Marketplace template, the researchers started scanning its attack surface, first discovering that it ran on CentOS 7.5-1804.
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