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Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS , 19.4, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3. This issue affects Junos OS Evolved , 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3.

Severity

Medium

Severity Assessment (CVSS) Score

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

Problem

A Reachable Assertion vulnerability in Routing Protocol Daemon (RPD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a locally-based, low-privileged attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, when a specific L2VPN command is run, RPD will crash and restart. Continued execution of this specific command will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

This issue affects:

Juniper Networks Junos OS

All versions prior to 19.3R3-S7;
19.4 versions prior to 19.4R3-S10;
20.1 versions prior to 20.1R3-S4;
20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S6;
20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S6;
20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S5;
21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4;
21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S3;
21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S2;
21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3;
22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3;
22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2;
22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2;

Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

All versions prior to 20.4R3-S7-EVO;
21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S3-EVO;
21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S5-EVO;
21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S4-EVO;
21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-EVO;
22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-EVO;
22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2-EVO;
22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-EVO;

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

This issue was seen during production usage.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2023-36840.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue:

Junos OS: 19.3R3-S7, 19.4R3-S10, 20.2R3-S6, 20.4R3-S5, 21.1R3-S4, 21.2R3-S3, 21.3R3-S2, 21.4R3, 22.1R3, 22.2R2, 22.3R2, 22.4R1, and all subsequent releases;

Junos OS Evolved: 20.4R3-S7-EVO, 21.4R3-EVO, 22.1R3-EVO, 22.2R2-EVO, 22.3R2-EVO, 22.4R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as 1678401

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

Workaround

This issue can be avoided by using access lists or firewall filters to limit access to the device to only trusted hosts, networks and administrators.

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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