CVE-2021-0291

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: A vulnerability allows a network based unauthenticated attacker which sends a high rate of specific traffic to cause a partial Denial of Service

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Jul 15, 2021
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Oct 27, 2020

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Description

An Exposure of System Data vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, where a sensitive system-level resource is not being sufficiently protected, allows a network-based unauthenticated attacker to send specific traffic which partially reaches this resource. A high rate of specific traffic may lead to a partial Denial of Service (DoS) as the CPU utilization of the RE is significantly increased. The SNMP Agent Extensibility (agentx) process should only be listening to TCP port 705 on the internal routing instance. External connections destined to port 705 should not be allowed. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS: 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7-S9; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S12; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S13, 17.4R3-S5; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S5; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S8; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S5; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R3-S2; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S2; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R1-S4, 19.4R2-S4, 19.4R3; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R2; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved versions prior to 20.3R2-EVO. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 13.2R1.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Ljuniper

Weaknesses

  • CWE-497 Exposure of System Data to an Unauthorized Control Sphere

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 13.2R1Not affected
  • 15.1 to before 15.1R7-S9Affected
  • 17.3 to before 17.3R3-S12Affected
  • 17.4 to before 17.4R2-S13, 17.4R3-S5Affected
  • 18.3 to before 18.3R3-S5Affected
  • 18.4 to before 18.4R2-S8, 18.4R3-S9Affected
  • 19.1 to before 19.1R3-S5Affected
  • 19.2 to before 19.2R3-S2Affected
  • 19.3 to before 19.3R2-S6, 19.3R3-S2Affected
  • 19.4 to before 19.4R1-S4, 19.4R2-S4, 19.4R3Affected
  • 20.1 to before 20.1R2Affected
  • 20.2 to before 20.2R2Affected
  • 20.3 to before 20.3R2Affected
Junos OS EvolvedJuniper Networks
  • before 20.3R2-EVOAffected

References

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