Vulnerability CVE-2012-1493
Published: 2012-07-09   Modified: 2012-07-10

Description:
F5 BIG-IP appliances 9.x before 9.4.8-HF5, 10.x before 10.2.4, 11.0.x before 11.0.0-HF2, and 11.1.x before 11.1.0-HF3, and Enterprise Manager before 2.1.0-HF2, 2.2.x before 2.2.0-HF1, and 2.3.x before 2.3.0-HF3, use a single SSH private key across different customers' installations and do not properly restrict access to this key, which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform SSH logins via the PubkeyAuthentication option.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
F5 BIG-IP SSH Private Key Exposure
egypt
13.06.2012

Type:

CWE-310

 (Cryptographic Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
None
None
Affected software
F5 -> Big-ip local traffic manager 
F5 -> Big-ip global traffic manager 
F5 -> Big-ip application security manager 
F5 -> Enterprise manager 

 References:
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/ssh/f5_bigip_known_privkey.rb
https://www.trustmatta.com/advisories/MATTA-2012-002.txt
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/13/f5_kit_metasploit_exploit/
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/600/sol13600.html
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