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CVE-2016-6249
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-02-20T15:59:00.170 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:50:41.520

Summary

F5 BIG-IP 12.0.0 and 11.5.0 - 11.6.1 REST requests which timeout during user account authentication may log sensitive attributes such as passwords in plaintext to /var/log/restjavad.0.log. It may allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.

Affected products

f5 — big-ip_access_policy_manager

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References

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