Product Affected

This issue affects all versions of Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved.
Medium

Problem

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause an integrity impact to the downstream devices.

When a peer sends a BGP update message which contains the aggregator attribute with an ASN value of zero (0), rpd accepts and propagates this attribute, which can cause issues for downstream BGP peers receiving this.

This issue affects:

Junos OS:

  • All versions before 21.4R3-S6,
  • 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S3,
  • 22.4 versions before 22.4R3; 

Junos OS Evolved: 

  • All versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO,
  • 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,
  • 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-EVO.

 

To be exposed to this issue a minimal BGP configuration like the following is required:

[ protocols bgp group <name> neighbor ... ]

 

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

This issue was seen during production usage.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue:
Junos OS Evolved: 21.4R3-S7-EVO, 22.2R3-S4-EVO, 22.4R3-EVO, 23.2R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases;
Junos OS: 21.4R3-S6, 22.1R3-S6, 22.2R3-S3, 22.4R3, 23.2R1, and all subsequent releases.

 

This issue is being tracked as 1708088 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).

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

2024-10-09: Initial Publication

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