Product Affected

This issue affects all versions of Junos OS. Affected Platforms: QFX5000 series, EX2300, EX3400, EX4100, EX4400 and EX4600.
Medium
6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Problem

An Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a adjacent attacker to send specific traffic, which leads to packet flooding, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
 

When a specific IGMP packet is received in an isolated VLAN, it is duplicated to all other ports under the primary VLAN, which causes a flood.
 

This issue affects QFX5000 series, EX2300, EX3400, EX4100, EX4400 and EX4600 platforms only.
 

This issue affects Juniper Junos OS:

All 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-S5;

21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S2;

22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3;

22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3;

22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2.
 

Isolated PVLAN's can be configured with the following command:
[set vlans <vlan-name> private-vlan isolated]


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-2023-44203.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS 20.4R3-S5, 21.1R3-S4, 21.2R3-S3, 21.3R3-S5, 21.4R3-S2, 22.1R3, 22.2R3, 22.3R2, 22.4R1, and all subsequent releases.


This issue is being tracked as PR 1667069 which is visible on the Customer Support website.


Note: Juniper SIRT's policy [juniper.net] 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

2023-10-11: Initial Publication

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