CVE-2015-8240 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2015-8240

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM,...

Vulnerability Description

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and BIG-IP PEM before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.0 HF6 and BIG-IP PSM before 11.4.1 HF10 does not properly handle TCP options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the tm.minpathmtu database variable.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

big-ip access policy manager, big-ip advanced firewall manager, big-ip analytics, big-ip application acceleration manager, big-ip application security manager, big-ip global traffic manager, big-ip link controller, big-ip local traffic manager, big-ip policy enforcement manager, big-ip protocol security module
Vulnerable Versions:
11.4.1, 11.5.3, 11.6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 11th, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.