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Overly Restrictive Account Lockout Mechanism

CVE-2024-37028

Medium
6.3/10

Summary

BIG-IP Next Central Manager may allow an attacker to lock out an account that has never been logged in.  Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-645 - Overly Restrictive Account Lockout Mechanism

The software contains an account lockout protection mechanism, but the mechanism is too restrictive and can be triggered too easily, which allows attackers to deny service to legitimate users by causing their accounts to be locked out.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published