Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
(0 users assessed)
User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
None
Attack Vector
Network
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CVE-2023-36843

Disclosure Date: October 12, 2023
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Description

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;

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
7.5 High
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
3.9
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • juniper

Products

  • junos,
  • junos 20.4,
  • junos 21.1,
  • junos 21.2,
  • junos 21.3,
  • junos 21.4,
  • junos 22.1,
  • junos 22.2,
  • junos 22.3,
  • junos 22.4

Additional Info

Technical Analysis