Security Advisory Description Validating the order of the public keys in the Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol, when an approved safe prime is used, allows remote attackers (from the client side) to trigger unnecessarily expensive server-side DHE modular-exponentiation calculations. The client may cause asymmetric resource consumption. The basic attack scenario is that the client must claim that it can only communicate with DHE, and the server must be configured to allow DHE and validate the order of the public key. (CVE-2024-41996) Note : For more information, refer to the D(HE)at Attack project page. This link takes you to a resource outside of MyF5, and the third party could remove the document without our knowledge. Impact For products with None in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, there is no impact. For products with ** in the various columns, F5 is still researching the issue and will update this article after confirming the required information. F5 Support has no additional information about this…Read More
