CVE-2020-5852
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2020-01-14
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Description
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
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2020-01-1417:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 21:37 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-5852?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-5852?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.5 | = 11.5.4.2.74.291 | no fix published | NVD |
| 12.1 | = 12.1.4.1.0.97.6 | no fix published | NVD |
| 14.1 | = 14.1.2.1.0.83.4 | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.5 | = 11.5.4.2.74.291 | no fix published | NVD |
| 12.1 | = 12.1.4.1.0.97.6 | no fix published | NVD |
| 14.1 | = 14.1.2.1.0.83.4 | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.5 | = 11.5.4.2.74.291 | no fix published | NVD |
| 12.1 | = 12.1.4.1.0.97.6 | no fix published | NVD |
| 14.1 | = 14.1.2.1.0.83.4 | no fix published | NVD |
10 more products in the sources.
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
Advisories and patches
- support.f5.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.17.5read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.05read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.2 %2026-10-23
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Published
- 2020-01-14
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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