Product Affected

This issue affects all versions of Junos OS.
Medium

Problem

An Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in the Sampling Route Record Daemon (SRRD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

When a device configured for flow-monitoring receives a specific BGP update message, it is correctly processed internally by the routing protocol daemon (rpd), but when it's sent to SRRD it's encoded incorrectly which leads to a crash and momentary interruption of jflow processing until it automatically restarts. This issue does not affect traffic forwarding itself.

 

This issue affects Junos OS: 

  • All versions before 21.2R3-S9,
  • 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S10,
  • 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6,
  • 22.4 versions before 22.4R3,
  • 23.2 versions before 23.2R1-S2, 23.2R2.

This issue does not affect Junos OS Evolved.

 

For a system to be exposed to this issue flow-monitoring needs to be configured:

[ services flow-monitoring (version-ipfix|version9) ]

 

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

 

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

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 21.2R3-S9, 21.4R3-S10, 22.2R3-S6, 22.4R3, 23.2R1-S2, 23.2R2, 23.4R1, and all subsequent releases.

 

This issue is being tracked as 1744804 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

2025-04-09: Initial Publication

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