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high 7.5

CVE-2020-5852 json

Undisclosed traffic patterns received may cause a disruption of service to the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM).

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-27006

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Undisclosed traffic patterns received may cause a disruption of service to the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM). This vulnerability affects TMM through a virtual server configured with a FastL4 profile. Traffic processing is disrupted while TMM restarts. This issue only impacts specific engineering hotfixes. NOTE: This vulnerability does not affect any of the BIG-IP major, minor or maintenance releases you obtained from downloads.f5.com. The affected Engineering Hotfix builds are as follows: Hotfix-BIGIP-14.1.2.1.0.83.4-ENG Hotfix-BIGIP-12.1.4.1.0.97.6-ENG Hotfix-BIGIP-11.5.4.2.74.291-HF2

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Exploit prediction

1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • F5 BIG-IP

References

Sources

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