CVSS 3.0
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LCVE-2016-6249
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 26% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- f5:big-ip_access_policy_manager
- f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager
- f5:big-ip_analytics
- f5:big-ip_application_acceleration_manager
- f5:big-ip_application_security_manager
- f5:big-ip_domain_name_system
- f5:big-ip_global_traffic_manager
- f5:big-ip_link_controller
- f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager
- f5:big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager
- f5:big-ip_websafe