CVE-2012-1493 - Controvertible Persian

Description

F5 BIG-IP appliances 9.x before 9.4.8-HF5 10.x before 10.2.4 11.0.x before 11.0.0-HF2 and 11.1.x before 11.1.0-HF3 and Enterprise Manager before 2.1.0-HF2 2.2.x before 2.2.0-HF1 and 2.3.x before 2.3.0-HF3 use a single SSH private key across different customers’ installations and do not properly restrict access to this key which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform SSH logins via the PubkeyAuthentication option.

Reference

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/ssh/f5_bigip_known_privkey.rb http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/13/f5_kit_metasploit_exploit/ http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/600/sol13600.html https://www.trustmatta.com/advisories/MATTA-2012-002.txt