An Improper Handling of Inconsistent Special Elements vulnerability in the Junos Services Framework (jsf) module of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to cause a crash in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) and thereby resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
Upon receiving malformed SSL traffic, the PFE crashes. A manual restart will be needed to recover the device.
This issue only affects devices with Juniper Networks Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) Cloud enabled with Encrypted Traffic Insights (configured via ‘security-metadata-streaming policy’).
This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS:
All versions prior to 20.4R3-S8, 20.4R3-S9;
21.1 version 21.1R1 and later versions;
21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S6;
21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S5;
21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S5;
22.1 versions prior to 22.1R3-S4;
22.2 versions prior to 22.2R3-S2;
22.3 versions prior to 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3;
22.4 versions prior to 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3;
The below command configures security-metadata-streaming:[set services security-metadata-streaming-policy]
[set services security-metadata-streaming-policy]
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-2023-36843.
The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS 20.4R3-S8, 21.2R3-S6, 21.3R3-S5, 21.4R3-S5, 22.1R3-S4, 22.2R3-S2, 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3, 22.4R2-S1, 22.4R3, 23.1R2, 23.2R1, and all subsequent releases.
This issue is being tracked as PR 1696110 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).
Removing the security-metadata-streaming policy from the configuration stops the issue.
2023-10-11: Initial Publication