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Abi80_167352
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Oct 17, 2014

F5 High Prio SSLv3 issue CVE-2014-3566 15102014

I am running bigip LTM version 10.2.4 and i believethis version is vulnerable to the MIM cuz of which i was adviced to switch over to TLS

 

My questions are

 

1) Does it apply to both client and server profiles 2)how can i elimiate it 3) And would there be any impact to my existing application if i move over to TLS

 

Please help

 

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  • thanks for the reply shaggy

     

    Is it applciable to both client and server profiles

     

  • shaggy's avatar
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    The solution is applicable to both client-side and server-side profiles.

     

    https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/cve-2014-3566-removing-sslv3-from-big-ip

     

    "If you are running 11.5.0 or later, your default clientssl and serverssl profiles do not contain SSLv3 ciphers and SSLv3 cannot be negotiated. If your SSL profile derives from these profiles, your application is not vulnerable. On all versions, you can disable SSLv3 ciphers by adding the string “!SSLv3” to your clienssl or serverssl profile. The procedure to change your ciphers is well described in SOL 13171."

     

  • We had a environment where it was not possible to update the client which was running SSL 3.0 but was possible to update the ciphers via a configuration file. A mitigation in such a situation is to disable the CBC based ciphers and leave SSL 3.0 enabled.

     

    Note that this will mitigate CVC-2014-3566 but may be weaker if you have other weaker ciphers. Just an option in case disabling SSL 3.0 is not possible due to other constraints.

     

  • ok we have few applications on sharepoint

     

    So if i move it to TLS1.2 will the users be imapacted sicne we also have few i rules which are defined

     

    • Amit_Karnik_269's avatar
      Amit_Karnik_269
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      You will have to test it out. You could enable a specific clientssl profile for specific source IP addresses using an irule in CLIENT_ACCEPTED. This way you could test your new profile on the same VS. Simple would be to create a new VS and verify.