Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 23.2, 23.4 on SRX300 Series.
High

Problem

A Use of Incorrect Byte Ordering vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX300 Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

When a BGP update is received over an established BGP session which contains a specific, valid, optional, transitive path attribute, rpd will crash and restart.

This issue affects eBGP and iBGP over IPv4 and IPv6.

This issue affects:

Junos OS:

 

  • 22.1 versions from 22.1R1 before 22.2R3-S4,
  • 22.3 versions before 22.3R3-S3,
  • 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S2,
  • 23.2 versions before 23.2R2,
  • 23.4 versions before 23.4R2.

 

To be exposed to this issue the device needs to be configure to process incoming domain-path-id attributes via:

[ protocols bgp ... domain-path-id receive ]

Please note that Junos versions before 22.3R3-S3, 22.4R3, 22.4R3-S1, 23.2R2, 23.3R2 and 23.4R1 accept this attribute by default.

 

Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.

 

This issue was seen during production usage.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue:
Junos OS: 22.2R3-S4, 22.3R3-S3, 22.4R3-S2, 23.2R2, 23.4R2, 24.2R1, and all subsequent releases.

 

This issue is being tracked as 1784353 which is visible on the Customer Support website.

 

Note: Juniper SIRT's policy is not to evaluate releases which are beyond End of Engineering (EOE) or End of Life (EOL).

Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Severity Assessment

Information for how Juniper Networks uses CVSS can be found at KB 16446 [juniper.net] "Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Juniper's Security Advisories."

Modification History

2025-07-09: Initial Publication

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