CVSS: v3.1: 5.9 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) CVSS: v4.0: 8.2 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/R:A/RE:M)
An Improper Resource Shutdown or Release vulnerability in the SIP ALG of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with MS-MPC allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).When an MX Series device with an MS-MPC is configured with two or more service sets which are both processing SIP calls, a specific sequence of call events will lead to a crash and restart of the MS-MPC.
This issue affects Junos OS:
To be affected by this issue two or more service sets need to be present:[ services service-set <set1> ... ][ services service-set <set2> ... ]
Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.
This issue was seen during production usage.
The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 21.2R3-S9, 22.2R3-S6, 22.4R3-S6, and all subsequent releases.
This issue is being tracked as 1806872 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).
There are no known workarounds for this issue.To reduce the risk of exploitation customers not requiring the SIP ALG functionality could explicitly disable it (in case it's by default enabled) by configuring:[ security alg sip disable ]
2025-07-09: Initial Publication