2020-10 Security Bulletin: Junos OS: SRX Series: An attacker sending spoofed packets to IPSec peers may cause a Denial of Service. (CVE-2020-1657)

Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS 12.3X48, 15.1X49, 17.4, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1. Affected platforms: SRX Series.

Severity

High

Severity Assessment (CVSS) Score

7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Problem

On SRX Series devices, a vulnerability in the key-management-daemon (kmd) daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an attacker to spoof packets targeted to site-to-site IPSec peers before a security association (SA) is established thereby causing a failure to set up the IPSec channel.

Sustained receipt of these spoofed packets can cause a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

This issue affects IPv4 and IPv6 implementations.

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series:

12.3X48 versions prior to 12.3X48-D90;
15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D190;
17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S9, 17.4R3;
18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S9;
18.2 versions prior to 18.2R3;
18.3 versions prior to 18.3R1-S7, 18.3R2-S3, 18.3R3;
18.4 versions prior to 18.4R1-S6, 18.4R2-S3, 18.4R3;
19.1 versions prior to 19.1R1-S4, 19.1R2.

This issue does not affect 12.3 or 15.1 releases which are non-SRX Series releases.

The example of minimum config stanza affected by this issue:

[security ipsec]

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

This issue was found during internal product security testing or research.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2020-1657 .

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 12.3X48-D90, 15.1X49-D190, 17.4R2-S9, 17.4R3, 18.1R3-S9, 18.2R3, 18.3R1-S7, 18.3R2-S3, 18.3R3, 18.4R1-S6, 18.4R2-S3, 18.4R3, 19.1R1-S4, 19.1R2, 19.2R1, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as 977435 .

Software releases or updates are available for download at https://www.juniper.net/support/downloads/ .

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."

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