01 Record
CVE-2017-15524
The Application Firewall Pack (AFP, aka Web Application Firewall) component on Kemp Load Balancer devices with software before 7.2.40.1 allows a Security Feature Bypass via an HTTP POST request.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The Application Firewall Pack (AFP, aka Web Application Firewall) component on Kemp Load Balancer devices with software before 7.2.40.1 allows a Security Feature Bypass via an HTTP POST request.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.22% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 68.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-12-18 17:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 19:57Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-10-17
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c417fa28d46bf459b33e160340bb876fb9fb99b8e54ee8ef4da88ccec279404c
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- kemptechnologies.comhttps://kemptechnologies.com/files/assets/documentation/7.2/release-notes/Release_Notes-LoadMaster.pdf?pdf-file-view=1
- www.pallas.comhttps://www.pallas.com/advisories/cve_2017_15524_kemp_afp_waf_bug_on_post_data
- www.securityfocus.com20171214 ADVISORY - Kemp Load Balancers - Module Application Firewall Pack (AFP) - Web Application Firewall (WAF) does not inspect HTTP POST data - CVE-2017-15524http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541602/100/0/threaded