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CVE-2020-5879

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—

On BIG-IP ASM 11.6.1-11.6.5.1, under certain configurations, the BIG-IP system sends data plane traffic to back-end servers unencrypted, even when a Server SSL profile is applied.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

F5 — Big-ip Application Security Manager

CWEs

References

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