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F5 BIP-IP Cookie Persistence

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
F5 BIP-IP(R) Cookie Persistence

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote load balancer suffers from an information disclosure
vulnerability.

Description :

The remote host appears to be a F5 BigIP load balancer which encodes
within a cookie the IP address of the actual web server it is acting
on behalf of. Additionally, information after 'BIGipServer' is
configured by the user and may be the logical name of the device.
These values may disclose sensitive information, such as internal IP
addresses and names.

Solution:

http://asia.f5.com/solutions/archives/techbriefs/cookie.html

Network Security Threat Level:

Low / CVSS Base Score : 2
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/A:N/I:N/B:N)

Networks Security ID:

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